Today, the Sorbian Easter passion play Waleien (sorbien: walkawanje) still is played with the children in some villages of the Spreewald, too. You need, boiled and painted eggs, sweets or cent pieces, the eggs shall the pit roll with the track (sorbien: walka) in this one and natural for one couple of Kinder to this. The pit should be approximately a metre wide and two to three metres long. When digging the pit a sloping train which is about 30 to 40 cm deep at the back end comes into being. And then the game can already start around the coloured eggs. A child puts its egg in the pit. The next child must try to meet the egg of the first player with its egg rolling to the pit now. If he has obtained a hit, then he may take the egg of the first player and gets a sweet (cent piece) in addition as a "profit". He does not meet his egg also must have left in the pit so. The next child may roll its egg to the pit now. If both eggs are met by it, it also may take both eggs from the pit and sweet gets two for this. The child which one no egg more "rolling" meets, may play as long as far to it. Then it is the next player's turn. The game is past if all eggs have been left in the pit.

TIP: So that every child also recognizes its eggs and there is no quarrel, it is well on for the best one, if the children can paint their eggs themselves.

Easter stands for the life-giving spring and for the re-awaking of nature. The Waleien is regarded as a miracle of fertility. Rolling eggs over meadows and countries shall influence the growth and prospering of the seed favourably.