Editing Easter egg (section)

=== Use of Easter eggs in decorations ===
In some [[Mediterranean]] countries, especially in [[Lebanon]], chicken eggs are boiled and decorated by dye and/or painting and used as decoration<ref>{{Cite web|title=Osterdeko - fünf Ideen rund um das Osterei {{!}} Anton Doll Holzmanufaktur|url=https://www.antondoll.de/blog/osterdeko-fuenf-ideen-rund-um-das-osterei|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.antondoll.de|archive-date=2020-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813060509/https://www.antondoll.de/blog/osterdeko-fuenf-ideen-rund-um-das-osterei|url-status=live}}</ref> around the house. Then, on [[Easter Day]], young kids would duel with them saying "Christ is resurrected, Indeed, He is", breaking and eating them. This also happens in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Cyprus]], [[Greece]], [[North Macedonia]], [[Romania]], Russia, Serbia and Ukraine. In Easter Sunday friends and family hit each other's egg with their own. The one whose egg does not break is believed to be in for good luck in the future.

In Germany, eggs decorate trees and bushes as [[Easter egg tree]]s, and in several areas public wells as [[Osterbrunnen]].

There used to be a custom in [[Ukraine]], during Easter celebrations to have ''[[krashanky]]'' on a table in a bowl with wheatgrass. The number of the ''krashanky'' equalled the number of departed family members.<ref>Yakovenko, Svitlana 2017, “The Magical Dyed Egg – Krashanka” in [http://sovabooks.com.au/the-book-about-ukrainian-easter/ ''Traditional Velykden: Ukrainian Easter Recipes''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326225539/http://sovabooks.com.au/the-book-about-ukrainian-easter/ |date=2017-03-26 }}, Sova Books, Sydney</ref>

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File:Pysanky2011.JPG|Ukrainian Easter eggs
File:Sorbische Ostereier.jpg|Easter eggs from [[Sorbs]]
File:Marguciai2. 2007-04-21.jpg|Easter eggs from [[Lithuania]]
File:Sleepingbeauty.jpg|Perforated egg from [[Germany]], Sleeping Beauty
File:Egg dekorerte.jpg|Norwegian Easter eggs
File:Ostereier-Griechenland.JPG|Easter eggs from [[Greece]]
File:Pisanki ażurowe.jpg|Perforated eggs
File:Oeuf de paque.JPG|Easter eggs from [[France]]
File:White House Easter Egg Roll.jpg|American Easter egg from the [[White House]] [[Washington, D.C.]]
File:Oeufs.jpg|Pace eggs boiled with onion skins and leaf patterns.
File:Red and blue Easter eggs.jpg|Easter eggs decorated with straw
File:04 Easter eggs at a Cultural Miner's House in Sanok.JPG|Easter egg from [[Poland]]
File:Washi Egg Japan US 2.png|[[Washi eggs|Washi egg]] from Japan

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