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Påskkort skickade till Gustaf Ekman i Brålanda, ca. 1916-17.
Easter Greetings sent to Gustaf Ekman at Brålanda, c. 1916-17
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| Nyköping - Stora Torget |
Market square in Nyköping, Sweden
Photo: Rud. M. Bardach, Malmö, 1906
Photo: Rud. M. Bardach, Malmö, 1906
En god och trevlig påsk tillönskas av Selma Emanuelson - Kära hälsningar
Happy and Enjoyable Easter and Best Wishes from Selma Emanuelson
En Glad Påsk tillönskas av Sally Emanuelson
Happy Easter from Sally Emanuelson
Glad Påsk tillönskas dig och många hälsningar från oss samtl. / Oscar - Tack för kort!
Happy Easter and Best Wishes from all of us /Oscar - Thanks for your card!
Hälsningar från Borås. Huru mår Gustav nu? Kan helsa från Fristad, har haft kort från Sally nu. En glad och trevlig Påsk önskar Gustav Nilsson.
Greetings from Borås. How are you now? I have greetings from Fristad, I just got a card from Sally. Wishing you a Happy and Enjoyable Easter / Gustav Nilsson.
Glad påsk tillönskas av E.L.
Happy Easter from E.L.
Happy Easter from E.L.
En Glad och Treflig Påsk 1916 önskas af G.J.B.
Wishing you a Happy Easter 1916 /G.J.B.
Wishing you a Happy Easter 1916 /G.J.B.
Glad o trevlig Påsk tillönskas av Br. Carl
Wishing you a Happy and Enjoyable Easter / Br[other] Carl
Wishing you a Happy and Enjoyable Easter / Br[other] Carl
Fristad 21.4.1916
Lycka till, en glad och trevlig påsk med många påskägg. Det tycker jag du kunde kommit hem och ätit, det hade allt smakat bättre, eller hur? Men det är väl något som håller dig kvar emedan du vänt Fristad ryggen som det synes för alltid. Ännu en gång, en trevlig påsk önskas dig av Ernst (?)
Fristad 21.4.1916
Good luck, and an enjoyable and happy Easter with many Easter eggs. I think you should have come home to eat those, hadn't that been more tasty? But I suppose there is something to keep you up there, as you seem to have turned your back on Fristad for ever. Again, wishing you Happy Easter. /Ernst (?)
Good luck, and an enjoyable and happy Easter with many Easter eggs. I think you should have come home to eat those, hadn't that been more tasty? But I suppose there is something to keep you up there, as you seem to have turned your back on Fristad for ever. Again, wishing you Happy Easter. /Ernst (?)
Angenäm Påsk tillönskas af A---d
Enjoyable Easter from A---d
Enjoyable Easter from A---d
De bästa påskhälsningar 1917 från Ivan
Best Wishes for Easter 1917 from Ivan
Glad o Treflig Påsk tillönskas af Ruth H
Happy Easter from Ruth H
Happy Easter from Ruth H
Why witches on Swedish Easter cards??
In Sweden and Finland, there are old superstitions about about witches flying on brooms to Blockula (Blåkulla) on the Thursday before Easter (Maundy Thursday / Skärtorsdagen), to meet the Devil. When this was no longer taken too seriously, children dressed up as witches or old ladies (or in old men's clothing) and went door to door distributing greetings and receiving treats in return. (Similar to English/American Halloween traditions.) There also used to be fires and fireworks on Easter Eve, originally to keep evil spirits away. In some places these traditions may still live on - around here I haven't seen all that much of them in later years.
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Such great Easter postcards. It's a pity we still don't send them.
ReplyDeleteThe Easter Eve traditions are fascinating. I didn't know anything about that. I'm trying to research the red jackets that appear on several of the images I found this week.
Happy Easter!
Blogging in international context does often force one to re-examine weird traditions of one's own country that one otherwise often tends to just take for granted! :)
DeleteI was kind of wondering about those folks on flying brooms on Easter! :) Then again, we have bunnies running around with baskets of painted eggs so who are we to laugh at others' traditions?!! :) Neat Easter postcards.
ReplyDeleteLaN, the idea of Easter bunnies always did seem strange to me - everyone knows (or at least did back in my childhood!) that eggs come from hens, not bunnies... LOL
DeleteI love the artwork on these cards, particularly those two witches who look like they ready to take care of business. The witch tradition sounds a bit like our Halloween the last day of October (formerly All Hallows Eve) -- just transposed to another holiday.
ReplyDeleteMolly, yes, it's very similar and I think they're both varieties of holidays involving struggle between good vs evil, light vs darkness etc. With Easter, the period between the death and resurrection of Christ was thought of as a time when evil seemed to reign.
DeleteLovely postcards to showcase this weekend. I have similar American Easter postcards from that time period that were sent to my grandmother. Part of that early enthusiasm for decorative postcards I think. And I also did not know about the Swedish Easter/witch tradition. It's curious that it comes from Swedish and Finnish folklore and not Norwegian and Danish too.
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