Ukrainian Pysanka Ritual Egg Decorating Kit

Description

The word Pysanky comes from the verb pysaty, “to write” or “to inscribe.” As designs are not painted, but written with beeswax. Many superstitions are attached to pysanky. Thought to protect households from evil spirits, catastrophe, lightning, and fires. Spiral Eggs are the most powerful. Unholy creatures can get trapped insdie the spirals forever. Blessed pysanky are used to find demons hidden in the dark corners of the home.

The eggs have powerful magic and had to be disposed of properly. Witches who got a hold of shells would gather dew and dry up a cow’s milk. They would poke people and sicken them. Shells had to be ground up fine or broken into pieces and tossed into running streams.

One Hutsul myth tells of the power of decorated eggs. They act as a ward against a dragon of evil chained to a cliff. If not enough pysanky are created he will escape and evil will take over the world.

The Ukrainian Pysanka Ritual Egg Decorating Kit was ritually smoked. It comes nestled together in a beautiful wood box filled with moss.

• Traditional kistka
• Dyes (yellow, orange, scarlet, light blue, light green, black)
• Beeswax
• Beeswax tea light candle
• Folklore scroll
• Instruction sheet
• Egg designs sheet
• Embroidered cloth (Random – vintage, handmade)
• Ukrainian Easter Eggs book