Tradition in my country: Mikulash

Ok. I wanna inform you about some czech celebrations.
Today 5.12. we celebrate Mikulash festival (Mikuláš).
Very notable are costumes. Important is Mikulash costume. It's someone like 'Father of winter' and he's symbol of justice. He's walking on streets with his servants: angel/s and devil/s. They must find so many children as they can. Mikulash will judge if child was naughty or nice (he has book of all children and with statisticks). If the child was naughty, devil will give him/her coals or potatoes; if nice, angel will give him/her some sweets or little gifts. Children mostly get both. But it's hard work on our streets, because some teenagers are getting fun. How? They throw petards on streets and (in the worst way) on them.
Mikulash and his servants sometimes visit families with children at their home. Children must prepare themselfs for this. They must sing or recitate some song and they must promise they will be good and nice next year.
I've got some sweets from my mum today too (gingerbreads, candies and big chocolate devil... Mwahahahaha!!!). Even if I'm sixteen years old. Adults also give some sweets and little gifts themselfs. They don't need costume. Costumes are for children ... mostly.
Mikulash is something like great name day. But his name day is on 6.12. And because this is only name day, we haven't any holiday or free time T_T

We celebrate name days. That means that every day in year include some name. For example: I celebrate my name day on 4.12. - name Barbora, on 5.12 it is name Yitka (Jitka), on 6.12. Mikulash (this isn't so typical name - I really don't know someone who's named like this), on 7.12. Benjamin (Benjamín), on 8.12. Kvietoslava (Květoslava), on 9.12. Vratislav .... and so on... It's like light birthday.