preparations for badni dan's christmas eve begin in the morning, when stern serbian men like goran petrovic forest to get badnik, oak branches. da padne u ime sina i svetoga duha. amin. prezident respubliki serbskoj milorad dodic сnukom. pomozi bože i sveti badnjače. prekrši se i uzmit. while serbian men are cutting down the forest, at home at this time women are baking kolaches, pies and chestnitsa, a special christmas bread in which they hide coin in the morning the honest woman will be broken into pieces, the one who finds the coin will be happy and rich all year. and, of course, the main dish on the christmas table, besides the russian salad, is the seb version of our olivier pech on prase, that is, baked pig. you need to watch it on the coals for about 5 hours to make sure it doesn’t burn, and periodically water the beer. in the evening, the serbs gather at the nearest church, someone is in a hurry to belgrade to the church of st. sava, in a car with a trunk filled to the brim with oak branches. we must have time to make a wish wish. the burning of badnik, oak branches , on a huge bonf