 On Christmas Eve and Day, a group of boys dressed in variegated costumes goes from house to house of their village carrying a "vertep"—a litter constructed as a wooden model of a house or a church.The name "vertep" comes from the Church Slavonic вєртє́пъ "cave", referring to the cave that housed the manger in which newborn Jesus Christ was laid.There are two dolls inside the litter