FOLKLORE

THE EXCHANGE OF THE POT
When a young man wanted to show his interest in a girl he would secretly take a flower pot from her yard and place it in his. So the girl had to search the yards in order to find the pot and discover the young man who loved her.

ENGAGEMENT
The young man could visit the bride at her home only on the day the girl's father had appointed. When the couple first released one of the major national holidays, in this way they formalized their relationship.

THE LAYING OF THE BED
On the Thursday before the wedding they made the bed. Relatives would bring sharp handmade sheets and spread the grandmother's knitted blanket. They also threw a boy on the bed for good measure so that the couple would give birth to boys.

THE WEDDING
In the past, wedding tables lasted for days. After the mystery, the dance opened with the bride, who was danced by all the men from the two soys and the neighbors, then the women from the two soys and the neighbors. At midnight the couple would leave, the relatives would continue and the first one would go and wake them up with sweet songs and the music of the tsambouna.

THE STEALING OF THE BRIDE
Stealing girls was common on our island. either because the parents did not want the groom, or because they pretended not to want him in order not to give a dowry. In this case, when the couple was stolen, the girl's father could not give a dowry, since according to custom, the dowry in such a case could not be demanded.

PIG EATING
As soon as December comes, they have been slaughtering the pig for the whole winter. They separated the pieces and prepared its derivatives. Sausages, sausages, sprinkles, cigarettes. All this with the accompaniment of tsabunas, with dance and songs. The custom of pork carcasses continues today.

Carnival
As soon as the triode was opened, the preparations for the Giotian feasts began. Hungarians in the sampunotubo stables with syrto, ball and polka. At the carnival tables, the main dishes were kapamas, lozes, sausages, ziladia. On Chiknopempi they made rice pudding. Muskrats competed in fantasy and teasing. The children spent their time in Lionda.

FUNERAL
Tziotes offer pasteli at funerals.

MEMORIAL
On the eve of the memorial service, they offer "rain" as a way of invitation. Brechto is bread soaked in red wine and sprinkled with sugar, a custom that has its roots in antiquity.