National Dyngus Day is celebrated Easter Monday by Polish-Americans across the country. The Dyngus Day tradition is to douse loved ones and crushes with water using squirt guns or pussy willows, but festivities have gained popularity filling parades and piling in dancers to Polish polka bands.
Now, more than 2,000 years later, Easter is mostly connected to egg decoration, egg hunts and the Easter Bunny. These icons are part of the commercialised holiday that many of us celebrate today, but they also have religious connotations.
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