On the Sunday of Tyrini in Kallithea, an ancestral custom is celebrated that is revived to this day and is the ‘custom of the cup’ or the lighting of branches from trees. The process is undertaken by the young people of the village, who, a week before Shrove Sunday until Tyrini Sunday, collect the branches by transporting them from the mountain and place them in the central square of the village. There the Cup is set up, one branch on top of the other with great skill so that it does not fall, the higher it is, the greater the success. After night has fallen and the merriment has risen, the signal is given and all the pioneers, holding torches of fire, go round the cup three times. Then each on his own side lights the cup.

In the past, we did not see only one Kupa like today but every neighborhood – mahalas had its own Kupa, where the competition was great.

The fire has always had the meaning of purifying nature from evil spirits and of course the purification of people from various misdeeds so that the beginning of Lent, lighting up and jumping from the fire, finds them with a clean soul and spirit so that they are ready to welcome Easter.