For Christians, the central focus of Easter is celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But around the world, all sorts of different traditions have sprung up around the holiday -- many of which have little to do with the resurrection. In the United States, people decorate hard-boiled eggs, and kids hunt for hidden chocolate treats suppled by the Easter Bunny. In Norway, there is a more gruesome Easter tradition. Since the 1923 publication of a wildly popular story entitled The Bergen Train Was Looted in the Night, Norwegians spend the long holiday period consuming Påskekrim ("Easter Crime"), a guilty pleasure that comes in the form of a book or TV crime thriller, filled with death, blood, and gore.
Easter, a time for crime:
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Americans watch gore 24/7. |