1. Made by Nerijus Valčiukas

2. Shrove Tuesday – not a holiday but
is singled out as the day which puts
to end meat eating and the time of
merrymaking – Tuesday before
Lent. Wednesday is Ash
Wednesday when starts long and
meager Lenten season.

4. Pancakes
Pancakes (sklindžiai), are one of the
ritual food. They are usually made of
flour with apples, yeast or plain.

5. In some places there were cooked
doughnuts ("pončkos''). Also there was
cooked cabbage, sausages, baked potato
pie (kugelis) and just some other fatty food.

6. Doughnuts (,,pončkos‘‘)
Baked potato pie (Kugelis)

7. Shrove Tuesday has some predictions
and conjectures, but they are almost
all related to agriculture. To assure a
good grain harvest for next summer
there was pouring
water over
everyone.

8. Another traditional Shrove Tuesday event was
masqueraders’ strolling about, which had the
task of scaring winter and awakening spring and
plants. Masqueraders wore terrifying masks,
made from tree barks, sheep skins or animal
skulls, all showing brutal hatred. The masks were
made by people themselves. They were of
strange colors, their beards, eyebrows and hair
of horse, dog and even bear hair, mostly brown,
black or white. The masks represented elders,
beggars, people of different nationalities, birds
and animals. They also dressed as devils,
angels and symbols of death.

9. Morė is a woman’s idol with huge breasts
made of straw and tatters. It is always
burned on Shrove Tuesday. Burning “Morė”
means chasing away winter with all her
evils.

10. Fatso symbolizes meat eating and overeating. He
was dressed as a fat man. Hempen symbolizes
modesty, diligence and fasting. He was slim,
raggedy with hemp filament around his hat with a
hemp rope and whip in his hands. They push
each other, threaten each other until Hempen
wins. This struggle took place in streets, yards,
even indoors so as to be seen by all.
This struggle ends the
merrymaking of Shrove
Tuesday.