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Customs on Christmas
Romania
Christmas Tree
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Another habit that takes place in our
country, is the Christmas tree. The
custom of Christmas tree not belong to
Romanian ancestral tradition but it is
borrowed from the world of Western
Europe.
Romanians usually decorate a green
tree or branches only at the wedding.
Christmas Tree
The star
"Star" is a stroll beginning
the evening of Christmas
and ends on Epiphany.
The goat
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From “Ignat” and ending with the Christmas
day, the other from days of Christmas, and the
other is used only on the day of Saint Basil,
there is the habit that young to go with Turkish
or goat . As in other games with masks
practiced during the winter holidays, and the
goat in the game and they did occur, in
addition to classical masks (goat, Shepherd,
gypsies), masks of demons and deliver that
through out, yelling, funny movements,
increase the note of humor and happy,
sometimes giving a shade of grotesque.
The goat
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game "goat"
(killing, funeral, the
resurrection) at home
was, of course, a
ceremonial seriously, an
element of worship. In
the holidays agrarian
game has become a
ritual meant to bring to
fruition the following
year, growth in
livestock herds
shepherds, the success
of crops - invoked and
evoked by the beans
that are cast over the
host followers "goat".