Shrove Tuesday

Shrove Tuesday in Estonian Open Air Museum 16 February 2010, 10.00-21.00


Shrove Tuesday ends winter fun time and marks the beginning of the great fast. That’s why on that day people eat pork trotter and pea soup, master traditional luuvurr game, foretell the future, and chute in order to guarantee a successful year. You can take part in all this, as well as many other Shrove Tuesday activities in Estonian Open Air Museum. From dawn until nightfall you can chute, an exciting Shrove Tuesday path is opened and the evening ends with a fun party together with Tallinn Dance Club

10.00-21.00
An ice-hill is opened in any weather, an ice-carrousel is going round when it is cold. Friendly tavern folks offer the good and the best as usual.

14.00-17.00
Exciting Shrove Tuesday path
All those who have completed the path get LUCK for the entire year.

Kuie school 14-17
Making a Vurr
On Shrove Tuesday when all pig’s trotters had been eaten, the youngest of the family made luuvurr’s (traditional Estonian yo-yo) from a shinbone. A hole is made in the shinbone, a ribbon run through it and a luuvurr yo-yo is ready!
Come and make one for yourself, so that your Shrove Tuesday goes really well!

Kolga yard 14-17
Driving out Kada
On Shrove Tuesday, a human- or body-shaped kada puppet was made of straw and rags. Then people drove it out of their farm with wooden sticks in order to get rid of bad luck.
This is not necessarily a magical ritual. It can also be a fun Shrove Tuesday game. Come and try it for yourself!

Härjapea farm 14-17
Shrove Tuesday thematic cross-word game
How does a bridle or a card look like, how many times one should comb, who is lihaeit? Come and find out!

Village square 14-17
Fun Shrove Tuesday games: Seaketaste Vigurrada game, race on Finnish sleigh and old wooden skis, agility games with a boot.
Shrove Tuesday jokes are the big part of celebration! You will get enough of those on the village square!

Tuulikute hill 14-17
Sliding and foretelling good fortune for the year
On Shrove Tuesday the young and the old went sliding. A long slide meant that linen will grow high, which ensured good income.
Get on the hill, slide down and measure the length of your slide! If the first one was not long enough – try again, and the fortune won’t pass you by!

Sepa farm 14-17
Women’s Shrove Tuesday: braiding ribbons, drinking tutsan, Shrove Tuesday foretelling.
Shrove Tuesday was a women’s celebration. Most of their work on that day was forbidden. Instead of working women could go to a tavern, drink red-colored drinks and foretell the future with a pig’s shinbone. The only work that brought good fortune on that day was braiding ribbons.

Kolu tavern 17-21
FUN PARTY TOGETHER WITH TALLINN DANCE CLUB