Estonian holidays, festivals, cultural events
house on Christmas Night as well as on New Year's Eve
and Epiphany.
jõulud has always been a family holiday? Jõulud is considered to be silent time. In the old times, no guests were allowed to
come on the first day of the holiday. Moreover, if the guest was a woman, it was seen as a bad omen. The same belief was
about the New Year's Eve. For Christians, the 24 and 25 December was holy time people stayed at home, read the Bible
and sang chorales. Näärid, or the festive events of the turn of the year, were a joyous holiday in both traditions.
old Estonians brewed hundreds of litres of beer per household?Christmas was also called beer holidays and the beer or
mead brewed on St. Thomas's day had to last until Epiphany. Brewing the ale was men's work, and it had to be started in the
middle of the night so that an evil eye would not ruin the important act.
for 350 years, Christmas Peace has been declared in Estonia
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