#it legit is considered a holy christian artefact or something as well

[crowned-ladybug]

So about that weird Easter tradition you were talking about yesterday...? 80c -Asri

It’s actually not an Easter tradition!

It takes place on 20th August, Hungary’s official “birthday” and unrelatedly the “Day of the New Bread” or whatever when ppl would celebrate the first bread they could bake from that summer’s harvest

Anyway. Country’s birthday. Technically the “Anniversary of the Foundation of the Government” or whatever bullshit. There was this dude who in English should be called Saint Stephen or something I guess, who made the v clever decision to convert to Christianity and turn the pillaging tribes and bad news incarnate that were known as Those Fucking Hungarians into an actual country, and himself into a king (most ppl back then didn’t like him a lot for it and there’s a rock opera about that but that’s a different story). Either way so in the year of their Lord 1000, bc they knew how to make countries in style, they made a country that’s now this shitshow but I digress

And today everyone loves Stephen. Maybe a little too much.

You see, on 20th Aug a lot of Nationally Organised shit happens in the capital (+ another Historically Important City) - something v special having to do with officers that I can’t remember, fancy flag waving i guess, some culinary goodness, fireworks over the Danube in the evening, a holy mass (yknow. the stuff they usually do during like Easter and Christmas and shit) and after said mass a thing called “Szent Jobb Körmenet” (”Holy Right Procession”)

Because, you see, alongside stuff like the crown and a cool cape, one of the country’s most cherished artefacts is a fucking mummified right hand that is strongly believed to have once been attached to the rest of Saint Stephen himself

That’s right my dude. It’s a fucking hand. It has some gold jewellery on it and sits in its nice lil gold and jewel-encrusted box on public display for all to see in a v pretty place called Saint Stephen’s Basilica. Except for when, yknow, to celebrate the country’s birthday, they pick it up and carry it around a bit in the city with a bunch of ppl following bc it must get bored sitting in the same spot all year i guess. They may or may not pray to it too for all I fucking know