#zadig

big family meal! meat is the centerpiece, of course (as Easter does come at the tail end of Lent, when you're meant to give up animal products), but many families opt for fish instead/additionally. there's normally a rice dish too, specifically one made with raisins and other dried fruits.

the egg game! see previous posts for more details. this was for sure my favorite part of the day when i was younger. for maximum enjoyment, I recommend playing it tournament-style: whoever has the strongest egg that beat everybody else's eggs is the winner. you do get a little sick of eating so many hardboiled eggs for days afterwards though

this one is kind of cheating bc it's a Palm Sunday tradition, but it's always been associated with this season for me: going to church with a pretty candle. anything from a simple church candle with olive leaves tied to the stalk to something more elaborate with ribbons. it's mostly for little kids, but watching them parade around with their pretty candles and try very hard to keep their flame lit (while supervised of course!) brings a smile to my face.

Like Zadig, by Voltaire. It led to the evolution of the detective novel/story. It also features an adaptation of The Three Princes of Serendip, a story out of Serendippo/Ceylon/Sri Lanka 3 princes features nesting stories. A serendipitous (where the word serendipity comes from) adventure. It's a picaresque before the word picaresque (from the Spanish, Picario), but anyways. It's shared/in conversation and evolutionary storytelling in action.

Zadig is believed to have inspired Poe with The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

But origins of this train begin in Sri Lanka.

A story about just a wild zany fun adventure of three princes. And this old story features a great deal of detective work and analytical thinking from the pov of the princes.

You've probably seen the inverse in popular media/games.

A murder happens, one of three brothers is blamed. You're asked to sus out who did it. Only here, they're asked to defend themselves after being blamed for stealing a camel they've never seen however, they are able to make deductions about the camel based on context clues in their environment, each prince having noted different things to help clue them in to the specifics about said camel, and unifying their findings. --the princes are later spared as someone else finds the camel wandering in the desert.

But yeah.