After the celebration of All Saints and All Souls Day, people can no longer wait to celebrate Christmas. They longed to decorate their house with Christmas trees and hang their windows with glimmering Christmas lights. No one on earth could ever feel not to excite when the month of December is approaching. Since then, others prefer to celebrate Christmas abroad with their love ones or alone with their family because of some other reasons. They wanted to experience how Christmas has been celebrated, and what is their tradition when it comes to this worldwide event. Talking about Christmas celebration abroad, just like in Greece; the folks celebrated Christmas here in a different unique and solemn way.

When you are planning to launched your Christmas in Greece, expect that most oft their establishments are closed or they are opening in not in their particular opening hours. The Greek people prepared turkeys during their Christmas celebration; which mostly invaded not only in the country of Greece but as well as in the United States. Christmas in Greece was expected to start at the 6th day of December in commemoration in the feast of St. Nicholas and it will end at January 6th which is the Feast of Epiphany as well. If you think that Christmas in Greece will be full of Christmas decorations you are totally wrong. Greek folks do not very particular with Christmas decorations, except for those who have been adopted the traditions of western countries, and except those in the windows of the emigrants. Non-commercialism in Greece is particular during Christmas seasons.

The country of Greece is conventionally tranquil and a religious holiday. The magnificent carols which namely known as Kalandas is particular in Greece which handed since during the Byzantine era. Within the twelve days of Christmas, this is in between Christmas itself and during the 6th day of January the Epiphany; the Greek folks traditionally believed that the hazardous kallikantzari or Callicantzari emerge during this season and believe to wear weird customs such as wooden or iron boots to kick people while some insists that they are wearing hooves and they are not booted. And they believed that they are dominantly male rather than female. In some of the other regions in Greece, they are to believe in the forms of monkeys, wolves, and other creepy animals.

Greek people keep on burning logs under their chimney during the twelve days of Christmas, which they believe to thrown away bad spirits that tries to enter in the chimney. Ironically in some other countries putting logs on their chimney is the way to see Santa Claus that is coming inside their chimney. The known “Yule Log” is keep on burning in the Greek folk’s chimney. They make it sure that the log is burning until the end of the period, herbs like hyssop, thistle ands asparagus were also put into the fire as the way of throwing away the Kallinkantzari. During Epiphany, Greek folks negotiate with the local priest to conduct a ceremonial blessing of the waters which they believed to reconcile horrible creatures until the next year. Some other foreign people land in Greece to celebrate Christmas since they found it perfect place to sincerely commemorate the heritage of our savior Jesus Christ.