The holiday consists of processions, costumes, tom foolery, games, and plays. The main parts are: receiving guests with treats; rides and races; processing the More statue and then destroying her by fire; plays with people costumed as animals, strangers and mythological beings; performing the war of Winter with Spring symbolized by the Lasininis (the bacon-being) with the Kanapinis ( the hemp-being); portraying weddings or funerals; spraying people with water; fortune-telling.

The main foods of the holiday are pancakes, jelly-filled french-fried dumplings and a hodgepodge stew of groats, peas and meat. While driving and racing in sleds, everybody tries to tip over so that everybody rolls around in the snow. Sledding about the village(s), the sleigh-riders splash and spray anyone they meet with water.

Costumed people visit their neighbors and neighboring villages. The head of the household greets the strangers by asking "What are you, do you have your papers?" The costumed people respond with "We are poor people from a land that has been pinched away. This land lies on the other side of running water, two weeks away." In each house the entourage visits, one of the guests steals something from the household and tries to sell it to the head of the household, who buys it with food and drink

The traditional costumes are as follows. To act as crane, someone holds a pole with a beak on the end through a sleeve of a fur coat. The crane hops about and tries to pinch people and peck at them. The goat walks around making goat sounds. Children block its way, asking for milk. When someone tries to milk it, the goat kicks over the bucket. The horse tries to kick people. The Hungarian doctor tries to sell his medicine (bottled water), saying "Whoever drinks my potion will regain health with the sweep of a hand." The Death Goddess, Giltine, dressed in black with a white veil over her face, carries a sickle and tries to kill the doctor. The Gypsy carries a baby and a bottle. The Gypsy asks for alms and predicts the future, while the baby cries ceaselessly and pees (pours water) over everything. The beggars sing songs, carry bags and ask for alms. The soldiers wear straw ties as belts and carry straw swords. The wedding party consists of a small fat woman as the groom, a tall thin man as the bride, and others.

In addition to pouring water on people, the wanderers spew ashes all around, carrying them in a sock, which they hit on people's backs. One person carries around a hen's bone and tries to hang people on it. Someone constantly rattles. A group of children buzz like bees under a cloth, and others sprinkle them with water. Someone sells herring from a vat filled with water, but buyers merely get splashed. People go swinging on swings.

The holiday ends with the burning of the straw More which symbolizes the old and is made from the last sheaves from the previous year. Her burning culminates in the victory of the Kanapinis over the Lasininis.