Christmas
Description:
On Christmas Eve - Christmas Eve - young people and children with a star on a pole go around the house, carol, glorify the hosts, wish them good, health, wealth. The owners give carolers ritual cookies (cossies), candy, money. If the hosts are stingy, then the carolers sing mischievous shrill carols with joking threats.
The third decade of December is Christmas, the birthday of Christ. Church morning service. Christmas carol performance. Then usually a celebration in the square. All dressed up. Bright bells ring, copper thunders, leather shepherd whips click. The spectacle is very colorful.
In Romania, it is customary to slaughter a pig or pig before Christmas. It is pork that will be the main dish throughout the holidays, served, as a rule, with polenta and pickles. Pork sausages or "sarmales" (something like dolma or doves, minced meat in grape or cabbage leaves) are also very popular at this time. Traditional for Romania, Christmas and New Year pastries are wicker kalach "colak", as well as muffins with walnuts, apples or pumpkin.