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Follow these new year's superstitions from around the world to ring in a lucky 2024. Learn things not to do on New Year's Day for love, money, and good health.
Whether it's to accomplish all those New Year's resolutions or just have a prosperous 2025, every culture has its New Year's traditions, but some might stand out more than others.
If you want to guarantee that your 2025 is only filled with good luck, make sure you read up on these New Year's superstitions and traditions. 30 New Year’s Superstitions for Good Luck in 2025 ...
Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, celebrates the beginning of a new year according to the Chinese calendar. During this period of about 15 days, many Taiwanese people celebrate its traditions and more importantly, strictly adhere to the superstitions the come with this occasion.
In ancient Egypt, these household rituals (performed in the home, not in state-run temples) were embodied by the deity who personified magic itself, Heka. [1] The two gods most frequently invoked in these rituals were the hippopotamus -formed fertility goddess , Taweret , and the lion-deity, Bes (who developed from the early apotropaic dwarf ...
A dancing drummer wearing a Namahage costume, performed Namahage-Daiko in Akita Station.. The Namahage (生剥げ, なまはげ) [1] are demonlike beings portrayed by men wearing hefty oni (ogre) masks and traditional straw capes during a New Year's ritual, in local northern Japanese folklore of the Oga Peninsula area of Akita Prefecture.
We’ve rounded up the most unique, and maybe even lesser known, New Year's superstitions from various countries around the world that are thought to help bring good luck and ward off the bad for ...
In Scottish, Northern English, and Manx folklore, the first-foot (Scottish Gaelic: ciad-chuairt, Manx: quaaltagh/qualtagh) is the first person to enter the home of a household on New Year's Day and is seen as a bringer of good fortune for the coming year. [1] [2] Similar practices are also found in Greek, Vietnamese, and Georgian new year ...