STORIES+Cyprus


 * A story in Cyprus says that if you are in **peace** with family members the 1st day of the year, this will probably continue the rest of the year.
 * A tradition in Cyprus in old times was the slottering of a pig to eat during holidays or make dry salted meat. The kids used to take the stomach of the pig, blow air in it, and play foodball with during Christmas school holidays.
 * The girs used to prepare a bassinete, hang it on a tree and play among each other. Also they were singing and talking.
 * Another story says that if you through an **olive leaf** in the fire and it gets flashy with a noise then it means the person who is in your mind, loves you. If the leaf stays in silence it means that he (or she) does not love you.
 * An epiphany day story says that if you through some kind of traditional cyprus sweets **on the roof** the bad spirits will eat them and go away for the rest of the year.
 * A custom we have in Cyprus, also in Epiphany day, is that the priests after the holy liturgy visit the houses of their area and through **blessed water** in the peoples houses.
 * The last day of the year, women are preparing the Santa Clouse Cake (we say Saint Vasileios) and they put a coin in it. The member of the family who finds the coin when eating the cake in consider to be the **lucky person** of the year.
 * KALIMERA KAI TA FOTA KAI TIN POULOUSTRINA PROTA, (which means good morning and the lights (epiphany day) and the money first). This phrase is called by kids in Epiphany day, mostly to their grandparents in order to give them **money** to buy shoes,clothes or something else.[[image:Εικόνα0164.jpg]]