Christmas customs, Samos

On Christmas days, they make all the desserts to sweeten the newborn Christ while they are slaughtering the pork to make the so-called "pihti", that is, boiled pork meat with lemon that leaves it to coagulate in order to eat it on the Christmas Day.

In the morning of Christmas Eve, the children say the carols to get money and sweets.

On the New Year's Eve, they make the vasilopita and on the New Year’s Day they put the pomegranate behind the door to break it with the foot so that the house to be full of happiness all year long as the pomegranate is full of seeds.

Early in the morning of the New Year’s Eve, the children say the carols while at noon they go ‘Proveda’, a plate with vasilopita and sweets to their parents wanting to show their love and care while they will give them the so-called "Boupistrinna" i.e. money and sweets.

On the eve of the Epiphany Day, the children go out to tell the carols while they all go together in a church, the Metropolitan Church (Monoklisia), and after the end of the liturgy it’s filed a procession to reach the harbor where the water is sanctified.

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