Bank holidays

Festivals and feasts are observed and many people go to church. On the nights of Christmas and New Year, the young people follow the ancient custom of singing carols outside the houses, after which they are invited in for a bite to eat and a drop to drink. On January 6th - "Mitaartut" in Greenlandic - the children go round in disguise, generally dressed up as rag witches who are allowed only to dance and make noises. When they knock on a door, they are invited inside. Bank holidays: January 1st, January 6th, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, Easter Monday, Ascension Day, "Great Prayer Day" (a Danish public holiday falling on the fourth Friday after Easter), Whit Monday, and December 24th, 25th, 26th and 31st.