The egg, symbol of rebirth, is the pivot on which wheel one of the oldest traditions on Easter Emilian mountains.
" scussin E" (from the verb scusser , ie crashing) was practiced in almost all the villages on Monday.
A charge of the place he bought scores of 5-6 eggs and cooked color: green used for both the grass and nettle tout court; employed for the red, however, the dye itself. Where there was competition, the decoration could be more refined.
These eggs were sold in the town square. The game, and fun, was to beat your egg against that of an opponent. Who won the egg had been able to rival that of the first to break, so the person who had caught the egg harder, but he knew also use a special technique to crush competitors.
participated in this game everyone: men, women and children. The overall winner was the one who left with an egg, could raise as much as possible, because the egg "coconut" became his.
tells Mrs. Armentini that his record was seven eggs before being defeated by a much harder than her!
A tradition so friendly, nice, simple and cheap that continues today in the mountain villages as Castelnuovo Monti, Carpineti or Marola.
Barbara Bertolini 
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