For Christmas holidays, the best habit is the caroling. The carols are the songs with which children, young people, or even mature people welcome the coming of Christ to the earth. The carols ritual are part of the star songs, the vifleem, the plough, the sorrova. Vasilica, mask games (turk, deer, brezaia), popular theater, dances (horses, gags). The habit of decorating the Christmas tree overlapped over an old habit of cremating the Buttoon on Christmas night. This habit symbolized death and rebirth of divinity and the year at the winter solstice. The habit has been attested in Romanians, Latvians and Croatian Serb. A very known custom in Romania is ‘cutting pig’. In some areas of the country, the pig cuts off Ignat, which is December 20th. They say the pig who was not cut on this day is no longer fattening, because he saw his knife. Every family with household people has to cut pig at Christmas. Traditions and habits at Christmas in Romania are many, but differentiating according to folkloric area.
