There are many traditions related to the New Year shared by almost every country of the world. It is common thinking that what you do on the first day of the new year will affect a lot the entire year.
It is also said to bring a lot of luck if the first visitor to your home in the New Year is a tall man with dark hair.
The use of the mistletoe on the doorways of our homes has instead been handed down by the Druids, who believed the plant to be able to drive away evil spirits from the house.
Eating lentils (some people eat them right at midnight) brings good luck and money during the New Year. In ancient times, according to some pagan rites, people offered each other wallets full of lentils as a present on the last day of the year.
Other traditions belong instead to a single population, in Spain, for example, before midnight, you have to eat twelve black grapes, one for each month of the year, and after the toast, the Spaniards put a ring inside the glass in which they drank.
In Greece the first person who comes into the house on January 1, throws a pomegranate on the floor attempting to break the fruit. Doing so they will spread the beans which will bring luck to the hosts. The typical New Year's dish is the Vassilopita, a loaf with a coin hidden inside, and the one who will find the slice with the coin will be very lucky in the New Year.
In Germany they celebrate in masks, like Carnival, while in India you can not wait for the new year in the house, you have to go out on the streets.
In Brazil people dress in white, while in other countries of South America people wear yellow and golden robes.
What are you gonna do on New Years'Eve?
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