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Angela Mestishen-Regnier, of Cumbola, uses a kistka tool to mark her egg with melted wax during a pysanky egg decorating class at the Schuylkill County Historical Society in Pottsville on Thursday.

Pysanky (pysanka is singular) are painstakingly decorated eggs in a prism of colors resembling the patterns seen inside a kaleidoscope.