Carnival customs - the burn of Tzaros, Xanthi

Tzaros or Tzarous, according to the inhabitants of East Thrace, was a constructed man-effigy, placed on a mass of yew trees.

On the last Sunday of the Carnival it was burnt in a center of a field, a square or a hill, so that the fleas do not exist in the summer. This custom was brought by the refugees from the Samakov of Eastern Thrace and is revived annually by the inhabitants of the settlement, which is located on the bridge of the Kosinthos River.

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