Willow Sunday is the last Sunday before Easter. The first necessary item for this Sunday is Willow branches.
The willow is the first plant to get back to life after winter. The willows (used instead of palms) represent the scourging of Christ. One can get willow branches in any flower-shop in Ukraine. But always make sure the willows are fresh and fuzzy before you get them.
Next, by tradition you may take these branches to church, where willows are blessed during the special ceremony.
People used to tap each other with blessed willows and say
“Be as healthy as the Willow and as rich as the Earth; the willow is hitting,
I’m not hitting, a week from today, it will be Easter.”
According to old popular beliefs the week before Willow Sunday (Palm Sunday) "one should not either sow or plant anything which grows in the soil: potatoes, beetroots, carrots, radishes, onions and garlic because all these plants would
grow tough as willow.
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