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If you are not Bulgarian, but you have already bought a property in Bulgaria and you are permanently living there you should know everything about that holiday.On New Year’s Eve and Zagovezni, in Bulgaria, special rituals called Kukeri (Mummer’s) games take place. The Kukeri games are performed by men only. They put on special masks, hand-made by each of the participants. Most of the masks are made of wood. Different colored threads are glued on it as well as pieces of multicolored fabrics, mirrors and other shiny elements. The masks represent a ram, a goat or a bull. Some of the masks have two faces. On one of the sides, the nose is snubbed and the face is good-humored, on the other side, the nose is hooked and the face is ominous. Those masks symbolize the good and the bad which coexist in the world and are inevitable.