Many customs and traditions are still kept in Moniatis. A list of some of the customs that have been unfortunately abandoned follows, such as pigsticking, Sikoses, Lambra (Easter) lunch and the festival of Sayttiotissa.

Pigsticking

In older times, each family would raise its own pig, which was slaughtered during Christmas time so as to provide enough meat for winter. With the meat they attained from the pig, the families would produce smoked sausages, lountza, posirti (something like bacon). What is more, they produced “koumniasta”, namely meat lightly fired, which was preserved in pig fat during winter.

This custom was later abandoned, as there is enough meat in the market nowadays and because raising pigs in inhabited areas was forbidden by Health Services.

Sikoses

Sikoses used to take place two Sundays before Easter fasting, what is known as the Sunday of Apokreo and Sunday of Turofagou in Cypriot dialect. Both Sundays, all the family would gather up in a house. Nicos Christou Ioannides notes that “each family would bring food and a feast until the following morning would take place”.