Sunday of the Carnival. The gathering of the group: The young man dressed up from the previous evening in later years, and from early morning nowadays, is ready. The drum and the clarinet (zournas) are heard from far away calling for the group to gather. The musical instruments, playing a melody of the free rhythmic type, called Zalistos, will pass by all the houses of the young men who participate in the group and they will gather them one by one.
The musical instruments will not gather the small boys. Those boys go with their fathers to the houses of the older men.
When Zalistos is heard, the Boula will come to the window or the balcony of the house to hail the group, which is coming to gather him. He stretches his hands up and hails by moving his chest to the right and left, so that the coins that hung from his chest are heard. Then the young man greets all the people of the house and everybody who helped him dress up by a handshake and by hopping on his two feet.When the young man comes to the front door of the house, he makes three times the sign of the cross and then he greets all the people who came to gather him. Afterwards, the group start their way in pairs to gather the next Boula while the musical instruments play Zalistos.
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