"Watering of the girls"

Men throw water onto a woman as part of traditional Easter celebrations, during a media presentation in Holloko, 62 miles east of Budapest.  Locals from the World Heritage village of Holloko, celebrate Easter with the tradition "watering of the girls," a Hungarian tribal fertility ritual rooted in the area's pre-Christian past.

( REUTERS photo / March 28, 2012 )

Men throw water onto a woman as part of traditional Easter celebrations, during a media presentation in Holloko, 62 miles east of Budapest. Locals from the World Heritage village of Holloko, celebrate Easter with the tradition "watering of the girls," a Hungarian tribal fertility ritual rooted in the area's pre-Christian past.

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