Carolling or Koledari is a traditional form of wishing others a Happy New Year that has been known for ages. Carollers, boys and young men, used to go from house to house during the Christmas season, i.e., from Christmas Eve (24 December) to the Epiphany (6 January). They sang carols, performed little plays and wished the hosts all the best. They got small gifts in return. The oldest pre-Christian form of carolling was to visit houses with live animals or dressing up as animals that symbolised power, health and fertility (horse, bull, ram or goat). Masks, disguises, accessories and the ritual gestures of carollers served to symbolically transform them into beings arriving from ‘another world’, which was supposed to increase the power of the rituals. The alien effect was often attained thanks to references to stereotypical and grotesque images of people from beyond the peasant community. Therefore, the set of carolling characters included caricatures of the Jew and the Gypsy that were consolidating the image of the Jewish and Romani minorities, full of bias and prejudice. Today, these props clearly show who was excluded from the circle of ‘our own’.