gay Spanish New Year's eve celebration on the 1'iHTta del Sol, Madrid's "Time Square." As the clock stt ikes midnight the grapes are hold high overhead and eaten for luckone for each month of the year.
To touch a pig on Saint Sylvester's Eve( December 31) brings good luck, Hungarians believe. In the principal n\staurants and cafes of Budapest a greased pi^r is turned loose at midnight and, amid confusion and mn i i ment, the guests scramble after it.
After evening meal on New Year's eve in Lithuania, two or three masked people carrying flaring torches enter a house in the village whore they eat, drink, dance and sing. When they 】eavc， their host and hostess, also masked, accompany them to the next house. Before the convivial night has ended, the torch-lit procession includes most of the village.
In England a glass of wine and a slice of bun loaf are rewards for visitors who "first-foot" (arrive first) at home following the birth of the New Year. A "first-foot" brings with him the traditional symbols of warmth and prosperity -coal, bread and salt― and is welcomed because he "lets in" the Now Year. Representing the old year, too, he leaves by the back door.
A long engagement is better than a short marriage.
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