Tick tock, tick tock, time’s running off the clock. Call it the dawn of a new ear or a national holiday, it does excite one and all. Right from gathering for family lunches to going for movies or touring the world, the new year ushers in a lot of scope and hope in terms of opportunities, merriment, love and else.
Though the commencement of a new year is observed in every culture, the people around the globe consider 1st of January each year as the universal new year. We present to you the top existing folklore observed and practised around the world even today.
People in Spain & Mexico eat twelve grapes at the stroke of midnight to usher in good luck for the twelve months to come
Columbians roam around with empty travel bags so that they’ve a fun-packed year full of travel
- Philippines focuses on circular or round things. Some even wear polka-dot dresses to symbolize coins aka prosperity
- children’s heads with onions and wake them up on the first day of the year
Ethnic Danish throw old cutlery at their friends or relatives in order to ward off evil spirits.- Doors in chinese villages are painted red for red is indeed a lucky colour for them
- Russians believe in the old school way of writing down a wish, burning it in a champagne glass and then drinking it to glory- All before 00.01
- NYE sees unmarried girls in Belarus play games to determine their who among them would be married in the coming year.The most prominent among them is to place heaps of corn in front of the girls and let a rooster nibble on one of them. Whosoever’s pile is picked by the rooster is thought to get married first.
- The Turkish believe in opening the front doors and sprinkling salt on the doorstep so as to bring abundance and peace in their homes and livelihoods.
- English believe in smooching at midnight. This smooch further ascertains the tone of the relationship that is to blossom in the coming year.
- Many countries in Latin America believe that wearing bright coloured underwear gets in stability and love
- New Orleans in US prides itself in best of cuisines, especially the sweetmeats. If you find a golden coin hidden in one of your savories, legend says that you are to be blessed by prosperity and positivity.
Take a leap of faith and begin this wondrous new year by believing!
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