"Thomas’ day is a traditional day for pig killing in Hungary. In a sense, with the killing and the feast that followed, people symbolically put an end to the year that passed. And from the savory sight of the feast, they already started celebrating the new year ahead of them. Also, another interesting custom on this day in Hungary was young women walking around the village, deliberately knocking the fences and hedges to see which dogs barked at them. According to the tradition, their future husband would come from the home where a dog barked first.