Our ancestors competed in imagination in the making of Easter eggs: whether they were bewitched or for the tenaisy, intended for courtiers or obtained from old godfathers.

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Student Easter Eggs: In the Middle Ages, on Easter Eve, school students, young people from the city, church clerics assembled in the public square to the sound of bells and drums, armed with spears and sticks and carrying banners on which were painted burlesque images. They went in procession to the door of the main church, sang Lauds in chorus; then they would spread around the city to beg for Easter eggs. This ancient custom, less the ceremony of the Church, still existed until recently in many provinces of France.

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Bewitched Easter Eggs : It is quite a general custom to break the shell of an egg after it has been eaten. In the Middle Ages, it was believed that the shells of eggs given as gifts at Easter, or New Year's Day, were used by wizards and witches to draw magical characters that evoked demons. Perhaps it is from this superstitious tradition that the practice of breaking the shell has come to us.

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