New Year traditions: Unique practices people follow worldwide to celebrate New Years Eve

As new year approaches, countries worldwide gear up to commemorate a fresh beginning in ir own unique style and quirky tritions. While New Year’s fireworks illuminating skyline is one of most common sights of celebrations by which, people aim for prosperity, hope, and wellbeing in year to come, re are also some of rare and unique ways in which people across some nations will welcome 2021. Here’s a list of some of most unheard-of tritions and customs hered to this holiday season by people of different origins on eve of new year. 

Tin casting

In rdic trition, people melt tin cans or pieces of metal such as horseshoe as a way to celebrate new year. y submerge molten metal into container of ice-chilled water for it to harden into a different and unique shape. This, as per trition, brings good fortune in coming year. In case of bubbles, or shattering of metal in water, individuals can expect new year to fetch abundant monetary gains and a future filled with good tidings. 

Mistletoe under pillow

Single women in Ireland place a popular wild berry associated with fertility in European mythology under ir pillow on new year’s eve and burn it in fire next morning in hope to find love or a perfect match in year to come. In ar Irish trition, women also tap Christmas bre on walls and doors of ir household to “ward off evil.” 

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All-round ‘Fruit table’ 

Oranges, watermelons, apples, cantaloupe, grapes, and all fruits one can possibly find in Philippines in one dish. Filipis celebrate new year trition with 12 different fruits. Each symbolizes a month in new year. Interestingly, fruits are usually all round as Filipis believe that anything round is a harbinger of prosperity and wellbeing. Locals are seen donning attires in polka dots and cash is stored in round pockets, lies, meanwhile put around ir necks a round stone necklace to welcome new year in this deces-old trition. 

Confetti fluttering

In Argentina, particularly in streets of Bues Aires, people tear apart ir old documents and scatter m out of ir windows on New Year’s eve in a unique trition. practice symbolizes emerging out of rough experiences of past year and entering new year with a clean slate. This practice is widely seen across many Latin American countries. Some, meanwhile, flush a bucket of water down drains or discard old furniture on streets to give a ‘new beginning’ to ir lives. 

Burning Effigies

Citizens of Ecuor on New Year's eve mark arrival of new year by setting ablaze effigies that represent year gone by. effigies designed as scarecrows or pop culture characters, artistic figures, politicians, etc that hold symbolic significance such as b news of year past, are burnt by people to end b luck associated with it. 

Smashing crockery 

In what can be called a ‘strange’ trition, danish smash plates and old crockery at ir doorstep or on streets, which, y describe as a practice that symbolizes ‘good luck’. Many households smash tableware and utensils collectively to welcome new year. In ar widely popular practice witnessed in Denmark, people are often seen jumping from a height, apparently “leaping” or “entering” into new year with fervour. 

Lucky colourful ‘Underwear’

In Latin America, citizens practice unique New Year custom of buying and wearing colourful underwear such as pink, white, and blue on December 31, discarding old ones. Argentines shop for pink, in Turkey citizens extensively buy red, while Mexicans and Bolivians choose yellow for ‘good luck’. Mediterraneans like Turks choose a red that symbolizes a year filled with love and compassion.

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