Merry multitudes of people usually flock to Lund’s central park to celebrate Scandinavia’s Walpurgis Night, a hallmark event observed across Scandinavia.
The southern Swedish city has come up with an original solution to keep visitors out of the park this Thursday in a bid to enforce social distancing measures: authorities are spreading stinking chicken manure on the grounds to prevent public celebrations.
Gustav Lindblad, a chairman for the local environmental committee, told Swedish newspaper Sydsvenskan that “we get the opportunity of fertilizing the lawns in the park and, at the same time, it will stink and it may not be so nice to sit and drink beer in the park”.
The origins of the celebration date back to pagan celebrations of spring.
