caroling, feasting and ... collecting items for mining , mining items for fortune telling, these are ryazhinyear, more precisely it was called a generous evening or vasiliev evening, yeah, after it and before baptism it was believed that those were coming days when the line between worlds it opens up, all sorts of cheerful evil spirits... comes out, on the one hand it’s scary, on the other hand it’s fun, on the third side you can ask her for something, uh, for example, it’s considered when they say, betrothed, mummer, come to me for dinner, having put a plate, a knife, a fork, and so on under the pillow, then in a dream it is not the betrothed mummer who comes, but these small evil spirits that take on the appearance of the betrothed mummer, and - he appears as a brownie. well , he’s a brownie all year round, he sends nightmares, these are the second part of christmastide, they’re called scary days, during this part of christmastide,