(28 Mar 2012) 1. Mid of men throwing water over a young woman as part of a tradition of the Paloc community in Hungary
2. Mid of villager
3. Pan from street cleaners to costumed men walking to refill their buckets
4. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Zsuzsanna Sztremi, head of the Holloko Foundation:
"We organised this rehearsal to use it as an invitation to tourists visiting our village."
5. Various of men filling buckets with water
6. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Jozsef Kovacs, folk dancer:
"On an average Easter Monday, I pour 25-50 buckets of water."
7. Mid of photographers directing participants
8. Pan of young Paloc minority women walking into position
9. Close of photographers UPSOUND (Hungarian) "Let's do it, and scream!"
10. Wide of water pouring ceremony
11. Close of a photographer checking his images on the back of the camera
12. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Zsuzsanna Sztremi, head of the Holloko Foundation:
"It's a very wet feeling. Immediately afterwards you look for a towel. It's good to change your dress quickly."
13. Tilt up of a man dancing
14. Close of a multi layer Paloc minority skirt
15. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Zsuzsanna Sztremi, head of the Holloko Foundation:
"What I wear now is the traditional costume of the village of Holloko. It was typically worn by young women."
16. Mid of a man taking water from a street well with dog in foreground
17. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Jozsef Kovacs, folk dancer:
"I'm lucky to be born as a boy. Nobody wants to pour water on me. But I can do it to the girls!"
18. Mid of photographers.
19. Wide of pouring water with an old well in the foreground.
20. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Zsuzsanna Sztremi, head of the Holloko Foundation:
"When I was a young girl, my girlfriends and I used to have a contest to see who was able to get more water. It was easy to decide the winner by seeing who had more dresses on the clothesline."
21. Mid of Sztremi being drenched; tracking view as she walks off
STORYLINE
In a village about 90 kilometres northeast of Budapest, a bizarre ritual was being rehearsed on Wednesday.
The Paloc community of Holloko in northern Hungary performed the Easter Water Pouring ceremony which has been a tradition since at least the 1600s although its roots stretch back to pagan times.
On Easter Monday, a national holiday in Hungary, the men and boys of the village traditionally poured buckets of water on the women and girls or dunked them in watering troughs in order to, the tradition claims, keep them young, healthy and fertile and to ensure that the girls don't "wilt" like flowers which have not been watered.
The men recite a poem to the women before the pouring, asking their permission. Afterwards, they are treated to a traditional meal of ham, eggs, pastry and wine and finally the women give the men hollow eggs with painted Hungarian folk designs.
The men and women in Holloko wore the traditional costumes of the Paloc (pronounced 'pallots') Hungarian ethnic group.
"When I was a young girl, my girlfriends and I used to have a contest to see who was able to get more water. It was easy to decide the winner by seeing who had more dresses on the clothesline," said Zsuzsanna Sztremi, the head of the Holloko Foundation
Several years ago, to meet the demands of the press, Holloko began holding a dress rehearsal of the Easter Monday water pouring several days in advance to allow photographers and reporters to meet the Easter weekend deadlines.

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