Some remarks from old man from Czech Republic: Czech custom of "whipping" female arses and legs on Easter Monday is very old. It is, for example, described in details in book "Babicka" (The Grandmother) from Bozena Nemcova, our famous national novelist, who can be seen on 500 Czech crowns banknote. This story is from (+-) the first half of 19th century. It has nothing to do with Bathory, it is pyramidal nonsense. It is just jolly feast of fertility, love etc. It is from heathen era, probably, yes. It has nothing to do with violence etc. "Whips" are made from young willow rods and "pain" is mostly symbolic. "Whipping" is made only among "consenting adults", e.g. in families, between lovers, neighbours or classmates. It is unthinkable to "whip" a strange woman. Girls and women after their "whipping" give coloured eggs to boys or alcohol to men. All ale pleased. After fall of soviet tyranny and opening the iron curtain, very new and unknown for us were articles written by american (mostly) feminists, who called our customs barbaric and wrote nonsenses as: "A man in Czechia whips a woman until she gives him an egg. It makes him dominate over her." First time we thought American feminist were simply dull. Then, we ("we" means almost all men and women, too, whom I was speaking about it with) followed, that feminists, political corectness fanatics etc are not dull. They are evil and malign. They want take us our freedom. They are communists of new era. |