Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday it’s an event a week before easter sunday. Little kids go around the neightborhood with decorated willow twigs They ask: Saako Virpoa? Asking the permission for it. Leaving a branch as gift, while receiving sweets in return. Wishing another person health and happiness by tapping them lightly with a willow twig and chanting a rhyme. A similar act from door door disguised as witch.

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