Christmas traditions vary throughout Greece but often involve music, food, fire, and protecting against evil spirits. In Central Greece, on Christmas Eve people get water from taps at midnight that was previously blessed with butter, cheese or baked goods. In many areas, people "marry" fire by burning a log made from a male and female tree to remove goblins. Children still carol from house to house, singing and playing instruments in exchange for money or treats to celebrate the season.

1. Christmas Customs
from all over Greece

2. What does Christmas mean for us?
• Festive tunes, children's fiction, fragrances
from household kitchens, bonfires, bells,
games of chance, Christmas boats and
Christmas trees, disguises and goblins, give
these days their own distinct color in all areas,
but even the small pockets of Greek territory.

3. • Everybody is prepared for the birth of
Christ, the revenions have a field while
families and groups of friends growing up
and the streets and squares are
illuminated and inundated with people.
Every area these days has its own unique
customs.

4. The feeding fountain
• In Central Greece midnight on Christmas
Eve becomes the "feeding" tap. Around
dawn, the girls go to the nearest tap and
get the silent water, since previously there
let butter, cheese, or baked wheat or olive
branch.

5. The demonic
• In Grevena they light up a big log in a
corner on Christmas Eve and then the fire
burns up until the Lights to protect the
family from evil.

6. “The marriage of the fire’’
• On Christmas Eve in many parts of
Greece they "marry" the fire. They get a
timber with feminine name, eg. cherry and
one with a male name, usually spiny trees.
The spiny trees, according to a popular
perception, remove demonic creatures,
such as goblins.

7. The Carols
• Carols are a Greek custom which exists even today with
the children wandering from house to house two or more
children together singing the carols with a triangle or
guitar, accordion, lyres or harmonicas accompaniment.
• Children wander from house to house, knock on the doors
and ask, " Shall we sing? ". If the response from the
landlord or landlady is positive, they sing the carols for a
few minutes ending with the wish " Merry Christmas . "
The landlord rewards them with some amount of money ,
while in the past they used to give them honey cakes or
buns .

8. A project made by:
• Papaiosif Hara
• Rekka Stavroula
• Poupoulidou Anastasia