Christmas Eve and Christmas In addition to family celebrations, they are also general village holidays. A week before the holiday, the carol singing groups gather to remember old songs and learn new ones. The leader of a group was the oldest and was called a Stanenik. Not everyone and not always could sing carols. But a young man who was not a carol singer did not have the right to marry. Boys sing carols, and girls sing lazarus. The two holidays have many common features. Only young, unmarried people participate in the rituals. They are an important part of their lives, because after carol singing and lazarus singing, the boy and girl become a maiden and a bachelor, move to a different social position, change their social status. Both the maidens after Lazarus Day and the bachelors after Christmas can now settle down.

There were also small children in the caroling groups. They did not perform the ritual sacraments with the adults, but they had their own importance and place in the group. Those of them who knock on the door are called a kitten, and those who accept and bring the gifts are called a donkey. The role of the carolers is to go around every house in the village and call the owners for health and prosperity. In gratitude, they give them money and bread, meat, bacon, beans, flour, wine.

Christmas caroling is performed from midnight on Christmas Eve until sunrise on Christmas Day. People believed that it was then, in the darkest hours, that evil creatures such as goblins, vampires and ghouls appeared. But the carolers chased them away with their magical songs. After the songs, the host, who holds the Christmas loaf, a gift from the owners, says: "God bless you with good health, and from us a little fun!" The caroling ends with a common feast, to which the other married men who had caroled are also invited. The gifts left over after that are sold, and the money is given to the poor or to the church, school, community center.