Sorbians Prepare Easter Eggs

Melanie Baier from the village Obergurig wearing a traditional Lusatian sorbian folk dress, paints an Easter egg in traditional Sorbian motives at the annual Easter egg market

Sigrid Bolduan from the village Klein Loitz, wearing a traditional Lusatian sorbian folk dress, paints an Easter egg in traditional Sorbian motives at the annual Easter egg market

Ute Zschieschang from the village Bergen, wearing a traditional Lusatian sorbian folk dress, paints an Easter egg in traditional Sorbian motives at the annual Easter egg market

A woman, paints an traditional Lusatian sorbian folk Easter egg in traditional Sorbian motives at the annual Easter egg market on March 24, 2012 in Schleife, near Hoyerswerda, Germany. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Women, wearing a traditional Lusatian sorbian folk dress, talk at the annual Sorbian Easter egg market

Sylvia Panoscha (C), wearing a traditional Lusatian sorbian folk dress, arranges eggs at the annual traditional Sorbian Easter egg market

Sylvia Panoscha (R), wearing a traditional Lusatian sorbian folk dress, arranges eggs at the annual traditional Sorbian Easter egg market

Sylvia Panoscha, wearing a traditional Lusatian sorbian folk dress, carries a box of eggs painted with traditional sobian motives at the annual traditional Sorbian Easter egg market on March 24, 2012 in Schleife, near Hoyerswerda, Germany. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Painted an Easter egg in traditional Sorbian motives at the annual Easter egg market on March 24, 2012 in Schleife, near Hoyerswerda, Germany. Easter egg painting is a strong part of Sorbian tradition and visual elements within the painting are meant to ward off evil. Sorbians are a Slavic minority in eastern Germany and many still speak Sorbian, a language closely related to Polish and Czech. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

Painted Easter eggs in traditional Sorbian motives hang in the tree at the annual Easter egg market on March 24, 2012 in Schleife, near Hoyerswerda, Germany. (Photo by Carsten Koall/Getty Images)

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