The children invoke the divinity
of vegetation for the health and wealth of the host in the morning of the
first day of the New Year.
"Sorcova" is a symbol of fertility,
health and purity. The children touch everybody with "sorcova", wishing
them to blossom like apple-tree and pear-tree, to live and grove old like
these and to be as strong as a stone or as iron, getting all kinds of gifts.