Easter is a combination of Jewish, pagan, and Christian rituals.
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Its name comes from the Jewish Passover, Pesach in Hebrew.
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In Italian, it is Pasqua; in French, Pâque; in Spanish, Pascua; in Swedish, Påsk; in Russian, Paskha.
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In English, Easter gets its name from Eostre, the Old English goddess of fertility and dawn.
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They were in special egg breads like Ukrainian paska or Russian saffron-scented kulich.
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In the Mediterranean, it is lamb; in Northern Europe, ham; in England, beef.
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Sometimes the bread is decorated with dyed hard-boiled eggs or shaped into a cross.
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Linen saturated with a mixture of wine and salt dried hard as a board.1 However, the Church’s problem wasn’t beer-drinking barbarians but wine-drunk priests and monks who made spectacles of themselves.
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Attempts to control them weren’t very successful, even though public drunkenness was against the law.
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Drunkenness was part of gluttony—eating or drinking to excess.