The market had been crowded with people preparing for the Orthodox Palm Sunday ritual of purchasing flowers and pussy willows to place on relatives'graves.
32.
Pussy willows appear to have been adopted as an alternative to the palm leaves used elsewhere in Easter celebrations, which were not obtainable in Poland.
33.
Pussy willows appear to have been adopted as an alternative to the palm leaves used elsewhere in Easter celebrations, which were not obtainable in Kashubia.
34.
I put Cinnabar Ramparts ( an 11th-century writer said the petals were the color of " crimson blood " ) near a black pussy willow.
35.
Of course I had to have this black pussy willow, and planted a small one on the edge of my vegetable garden at the farm.
36.
Farmers in Karelia for centuries had taken pussy willows in lieu of palm leaves to their neighbors on Palm Sunday as a gesture of blessing.
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As with the water-throwing, boys would whip girls with pussy willows on Easter Monday and girls would do the same to boys on the following Tuesday.
38.
They were blessed by priests on Palm Sunday, following which parishioners whipped each other with the pussy willow branches, saying " Wierzba bije, j?nie bij?
39.
Many waved palm fronds, olive branches and pussy willows as John Paul was driven to the canopied altar atop the steps of St . Peter's Basilica.
40.
There were gaucho pants, gold-mesh disco shirts with rolled-up clam-digger jeans, a gold-mesh earring hanging from a pierced lobe and pussy willows thrust through knotted hair.
