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Good Friday folk beliefs
A day of many small beliefs: bread baked on it said never to go mouldy, eggs laid on it said to keep, and buns hung up as a charm.
About Good Friday folk beliefs
Good Friday collected a large amount of folk belief in northern Europe. Hot cross buns baked on the day were said to keep for a year without spoiling, and a bun might be hung in the kitchen as protection against fire, or ground and given to the sick as a remedy in some accounts. Eggs laid on Good Friday were thought to keep without going bad, and in Germany they were regarded as especially potent. Planting or digging was thought unlucky in some regions, while others held that it was a good day for sowing parsley or potatoes. These are folk beliefs recorded by antiquarians, and are separate from the formal observance of the day.
Also part of it, and being written: Good Friday (The Christian observance.), Hot cross bun (The bun and its folk uses.).
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Written by the EveryJaadu desk with AI assistance. Background: "Good Friday" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family, and are described as belief and practice. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.
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