Strangeambitions's Blog – April 2009 Archive (1)

I'm going to Dingus Day Buffalo tomorrow. The women use pussy willow branches to whip the men of choice and men use squirt guns, or beer depending on the occasion to squirt or splashed the girls. Is this not a direct descendant of some pagan spring ritual reemerged; it is celebrated as Polish but pick the time in the last couple thousand years and the region is probably a third of Europe, so that doesn't really narrow it down at all. It's got to be a strong tradition that survived thanks to the… Continue