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From the ones you already know to the truly bizarre ones you’ve never heard of, here are the Top 10 New Year’s Traditions and Superstitions in the United States.
10. Fireworks
Fireworks, cheering, singing and noisemakers on New Year’s Eve are believed to scare away evil spirits. Do we really need an excuse to set off fireworks? [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 at 11:16 am
Filed under All, History, Holidays, Misc · Tagged America, Bizarre, Cabbage, celebration, clock strikes midnight, evil spirits, Fireworks, getting out of debt, guilt, IRS, kiss, Music, new year, new years, noisemakers, resolutions
Christmastime is here. We all have our own holiday traditions – in my family we watch a Christmas movie on Christmas Eve and stuff our faces. Your family might do something different. Shoot, you might even be from another country, where there are what seem (to us) like some pretty wacky traditions. Some you might [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Downing Johnson on Wednesday, December 17, 2008 at 1:03 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Holidays · Tagged auk, Bizarre, brooms, Caga Tio, chimney, Christmas, christmas eve, christmas holiday, christmas movie, christmas tradition, christmastime, evil spirits, holiday traditions, Holidays, Kallikantzaroi, kiviak, Mari Lwyd, monkey, pudding, Santa, Santa Claus, seal skin, star, witches
