The inseparable element of Christmas is a carol. The name carol appeared long time ago. It comes from word 'calendae'. These carols, especially January or New Year’s ones, they celebrated very cheerfully, played, sang, said wishes, gave presents. The Catholic Church banned old heathen custom of singing carols though the traditions of singing god songs, visiting homes, buying presents were kept. In this way we learned the new word, Latin word 'calendae', which is a carol.
 

  Carolling
Long time ago visits were started on New Year's Day or the next day. Nowadays, they last longer as the population of Poland has increased a lot.