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*Egg rolling*, or an *Easter egg roll* is a traditional game played with
eggs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)> at Easter
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter>. Different nations have different
versions of the game, usually played with hard-boiled
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard-boiled_egg>, decorated eggs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorated_egg>.
Contents
* 1 History <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#History>
* 2 United Kingdom
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#United_Kingdom>
* 3 United States
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#United_States>
* 4 Other countries
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#Other_countries>
* 5 See also <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#See_also>
* 6 References <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#References>
* 7 External links
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#External_links>
History
Starting in 1835, Jacob Grimm and other writers proposed that the
pre-Christian Saxons <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saxons> had a spring
goddess, Eostre <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eostre>, whose feast
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival> was held on the Vernal equinox
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernal_equinox_(northern_hemisphere)>,
around 21 March. Grimm also suggested that her symbolic animal was
"probably" the spring hare <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare>, and
that the egg symbolized the rebirth of the land in spring.
Some claim that Pope Gregory the Great
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_the_Great> had ordered his
missionaries to use old religious sites and festivals
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival> in order to absorb them into
Christian rituals wherever possible. According to Grimm and his
followers, the Christian <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity>
celebration of the Resurrection of Christ
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_Christ> was ideally
suited to be merged with the Pagan <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagan>
feast of Ēostre <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre> and many of
those pagan traditions were adopted into the Christian festivities.^[1]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-1> In England,
Germany, and other countries, children traditionally rolled eggs down
hillsides at Ēostre festivities. After mergers of celebrations, this may
have become symbolic of the rolling away of the rock from Jesus Christ's
tomb before his resurrection.^[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-inventors-2> This
tradition, along with others, such as what had become the Easter Bunny
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny>, were taken to the New
World <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World> by European
settlers.^[2]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-inventors-2> ^[3]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-3>
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom the tradition of rolling decorated eggs down
grassy hills goes back hundreds of years and is known as "pace-egging",
from the Old English
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_Language> /Pasch/ meaning
Pesach or Passover <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover>.^[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-curious-4> In
Lancashire <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire> there are annual
egg rolling competitions at Holcombe Hill near Ramsbottom
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsbottom> and Avenham Park in Preston
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston,_Lancashire>. Egg rolling has
been a tradition at Avenham Park for hundreds of years, but in recent
years chocolate eggs have been used.^[5]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-5> Other
traditional egg rolling sites are the castle moat at Penrith
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrith,_Cumbria>, Bunkers Hill in Derby
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby>, Arthur's Seat
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%27s_Seat> in Edinburgh
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh>.^[/citation needed
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>/] and on
Penshaw Hill <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penshaw_Hill> in Tyne and
Wear at Penshaw Monument
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penshaw_Monument>.^[6]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-6>
The eggs traditionally were wrapped in onion skins and boiled to give
them a mottled gold appearance (although today they usually are painted)
and the children competed to see who could roll their egg the
farthest.^[4]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-curious-4> There is
an old Lancashire legend that says the broken eggshells should be
crushed carefully afterward or, they would be stolen and used as boats
by witches <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch>.^[7]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-7> The eggs were
eaten on Easter Sunday or given out to pace-eggers
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pace_Egg_plays> – fantastically dressed
characters who processed through the streets singing traditional
pace-egging songs and collecting money as a tribute before performing
traditional mumming plays
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumming_play>.^[8]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-historic-8> At the
Wordsworth <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth> museum in
Grasmere <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasmere_(village)> there is a
collection of highly decorated eggs made for the poet's children.^[8]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-historic-8>
In Scotland, /pace-eggin/ is traditional from Shetland
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shetland> to the Borders although the day
varied with location, /pace-egg day/ variously the prior Saturday,
Easter Sunday, or Easter Monday.^[9]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-auto-9>
/Paiss-braes/, hills, were used or other grassy slopes or areas such as
seaside links <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(golf)>.^[9]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-auto-9> There is
some variation in the spelling and pronunciation of the term /pace/,
including also /pash/ and /peace/.^[9]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-auto-9>
United States
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reagan_at_WH_Easter_Egg_Roll_1982.jpg>
The Reagans <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan> at the 1982
White House Easter egg roll
In the United States, the *Easter Egg Roll* is an annual event, and is
held on the White House South Lawn
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House#Grounds> each Easter Monday
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Monday> for children (age 13 and
younger) and their parents. It is hosted by the President of the United
States <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States>
and the First Lady of the United States
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Lady_of_the_United_States>.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_at_this_2009_White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll.jpg>
Barack Obama <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama> at the 2009
White House Easter egg roll
The Egg Roll is a race, where children push an egg through the grass
with a long-handled spoon.^[10]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-10> Surrounding
events include appearances by White House personalities in Easter Bunny
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Bunny> costumes, speeches and
book-reading by cabinet secretaries
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_secretary>, and exhibits of
artistically-decorated eggs.
According to tradition,^[11]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-11> Dolley Madison
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolley_Madison>, the wife of President
James Madison <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison>, began the
event in 1814 and hundreds of children brought their decorated eggs to
join in games. Rolling Easter eggs was a popular annual custom in
Washington DC and Alexandria, Virginia from as early as the 1850s, with
children rolling eggs on Easter Monday (and sometimes Good Friday) at
the Capitol, the White House and other parks and open spaces.^[12]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-12> Easter eggs
were rolled at the capitol as early as 1855^[13]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-13> and at the
White House as early as 1860.^[14]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-14> By the 1870s,
the Capitol had become the most popular place to roll eggs, although
they were also rolled at the White House and other places.^[15]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-15>
In 1876, shortly after a particularly rambunctious Easter egg roll
destroyed much of the lawn at the Capitol, Congress passed a law making
it illegal to use the capitol grounds as a children's playground. Heavy
rain prevented much egg rolling in 1877, so the ban was not tested until
1878.^[16] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-16>
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_White_House_Easter_Egg_Roll_2017_JNB_1779_(33792291300).jpg>
The 2017 White House Easter egg roll
At the request of a number of children, including his own, then
President Rutherford B. Hayes
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes> and his wife Lucy
Hayes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Hayes> brought the event to
the White House lawns in 1878.^[17]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-17> From that year
on, the egg roll would be an annual White House event, with the
exception of 1917 (moved to the Washington Monument), 1918-1920
(canceled due to food shortages and influenza concerns), 1942 (moved to
the Capitol West Lawn), 1943-1945 (World War II), 1946-1947 (food
conservation), 1948-1952 (restoration of the White House) and 2020-2021
(social distancing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_distancing>
measures to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_States>).^[18]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-18> ^[19]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-19> ^[20]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-20>
In 1953 Mamie Eisenhower
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamie_Eisenhower> proposed that event be
opened to black <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American>
children, who were allowed to participate starting in 1954.^[21]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-21>
The event was featured in the 2007 film /National Treasure: Book of
Secrets
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Treasure:_Book_of_Secrets>/.
Other countries
In Germany, a prize is awarded to the contestant whose egg rolls fastest
down a track made of sticks. In Denmark
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark>, decorated eggs are rolled down
slopes in grassland or forest - the contestant whose egg rolls farthest
is the winner - and the eggs are eaten after the game (if not broken).
The tradition is particularly common around the town of Køge
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B8ge>. In Lithuania
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania> one collects those eggs that
are touched by the one rolled.
In Egypt <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt>, children bowl red and
yellow eggs toward another row of eggs and whoever's egg cracks one egg,
may claim them all.
In eastern Europe, there are other traditions such as egg tapping
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_tapping> and egg decorating
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorated_egg>.^[22]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_rolling#cite_note-22>
