Egyptian overcome evil spirits by eating onions

Egyptian Christians and Moslems have celebrated yesterday the "spring feast" which is considered a custom 5,000 years old, dating to the time of the pharaohs.

The pharaohs called the spring feast, where people used to wear their most splendid clothes, singing songs and walking around the Nile.

This feast has been related since the pharaohs to the eating of onion, which was believed to overcome the evil spirit inside the human body, and to coloring the spring boiled egg. Thus the Egyptian named the feast by several names, such as the "Onion's Bundle."

These pharaonic customs have remained till now, although the eating of salted fish has been added to this day.

Celebrating the spring differs from one governorate to another; there are governorates that last for 2 days as "Ismalia", Port Said, Suez except upper Egypt begins the feast day where the people staying up at night along the Nile.