Carnivals are a folk custom that introduce a certain chaos into everyday life. They are a contrast of good and evil, spiritual and physical, real and magical, religious and pagan. Carnivals in Croatia represent the period between winter and spring. Here, the events are often associated with Christian festivals, so the beginning and the end of carnival customs are connected. However, there is no definite beginning of customs as they are tied to the part of Croatia in which they take place, and so are the characters of carnival customs and the carnival customs themselves. In Croatia, the most famous of the valorized carnival customs are bell ringers from the Kastav region, and bushes from Baranja. These two carnival customs are quite similar and related to similar legends. When it comes to unvalorized carnival customs, there are a great number of them, and they, as different as they are, are much the same in certain segments. For example, did, peasants, drunkards, sailors, gypsies, widows, pregnant women and godparents. Customs related to the appear almost everywhere. Of course, it is necessary to mention the carnivals, the most famous of which are the Rijeka Carnival, the Samobor Carnival and the Senj Summer Carnival.