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| New Years |
Who has not ever eaten grapes while listening to the bells, there has been some red underwear or perhaps has requested wishes for the new year?
Some of these superstitions are very common, but the list is long and not known the origin of them all. The best country is, undoubtedly, that of eating twelve grapes, which then has been exported to Latin American countries.
Although it is generally believed that this tradition comes from 1909 in Elche, when some winegrowers in the region of Bajo Vinalopó Eve ate grapes outlet for surplus crop is actually documented at least since December 1897.
The precedent, however, is in Madrid, in 1882, when a group of citizens tried to ridicule the bourgeois habit of drinking champagne and eating grapes to see the year and went to the Puerta del Sol to take the grapes are from the chimes.
Other superstitions have a pagan origin or unknown, but all have three main objectives for next year: money, love and good luck.
Most of these rituals seek to attract a good economic situation, including the most famous is to provide a gold ring in a glass of champagne, but there is a tradition of putting money on shoes, eating the cooked lentils year or first few minutes of cooking fish without removing the scales.
For love, superstitions are very curious. One of the most followed is to kiss someone of the opposite sex after midnight to find a partner in the new year. Also sitting and getting up to each of the twelve chimes if you are looking for marriage.
And for the lucky, the list grows, from running red underwear or fill a bucket of water throughout the day and empty at night, to open and close all windows of the house or go outside and come back with the foot right ahead.
If you are looking for are things more precise, like traveling, then you should take bags to the door of the house while the bells ring, but if, for example, what brand you want is a lot of clothes, then you should put the clothes intimate inside out before midnight and then change them again.
So look through the list you need most ysi, in 2012 you health, wealth and love, you have to give, as the song says, thanks to God or to repeat the ritual every year.
