FIVE EASTER TRADITIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD..

1.Eggs (and baby chicks) have been a symbol of springtime, fertility, and rebirth since pagan times. Every Easter, people around the world are decorating them, rolling them, hunting for them, hanging them from trees and, of course, eating them.

2.Rabbits
Like eggs, rabbits and hares have been a fertility symbol since antiquity. The idea of an Easter Bunny bearing eggs as gifts appears to have originated in Germany. It was first mentioned in Georg Franck von Frankenau's De ovis paschalibus in 1682, referring to an Alsace tradition of an Easter Hare bringing Easter Eggs. The Easter Bunny makes an annual appearance at the Easter Egg Roll at the White House (pictured), a springtime tradition since the early 19th century.

3.Bilbies
Australians celebrate the Easter bilby as an alternative to the Easter Bunny, and eat chocolate treats in the shape of these long-eared endangered marsupials.

4.Bells



In France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, church bells are silent as a sign of mourning for one or more days before Easter. This has led to an Easter tradition that says that during this time the bells fly out of their steeples to go to Rome, and return on Easter morning bringing coloured eggs, chocolate eggs and rabbits, and (as pictured above) chocolate bells.

5. Chocolate fish
Chocolate fish are another popular spring treat, though not directly associated with Easter. On April 1 (April Fools' Day), the French, Belgian, and Italians traditionally surprise each other by sticking paper fish on each other's backs and shouting 'April fish!' So, naturally enough, fish have become part of the traditional Easter chocolate shapes in these countries.

6.Church service and Pilau.

In Tanzania during Easter season as most of the population is made up of Christians prefer going to Church as they celebrate the risen CHRIST who paid the debt He did not owe.. After church they return home to a good meal -- Pilau (mixed rice with spices) together with their families.