We all know the classic rituals to welcome the New Year: wearing red underwear for love or yellow for money, leaving the house with suitcases for trips, eating the 12 grapes or kissing your boyfriend at midnight, perhaps Is there anything else to do? Here are the not so common rituals to welcome the New Year.
If in other years you already did everything and it didn’t work, you could try something new and be the luckiest person of the new year.
- Call to love. To be successful in love you must hug someone of the opposite sex (or the same, it depends) at 12 at night. If you want someone in particular, tie their photo with a red ribbon and put it under your pillow that night.
- Dancing outdoors. It is believed that if you dance outdoors and around a tree on the night of the 31st, you will have great luck in love and prosperity throughout the year.
- Carry something new in your outfit. Don’t wait any longer, remove the tags from your Christmas gifts and put on all the new clothes you have, shoes and accessories also count.
- Full wallet and pantry. For To call for abundance, you must make sure that you don’t lack anything in your pantry and carry enough bills (not coins) with you in the first minutes of the New Year. Bonus point if you put them in your shoe.
- Open doors. When midnight arrives, open all the doors of your house to let the old year go and let the new one in with everything.
- Don’t wash anything. It is said that the water will wash away all the good vibes if you wash something on January 1st, that includes not bathing, letting dirty clothes overflow and not touching the dishes from the night before, at least until the 2nd. On the other hand, if the previous year was horrible, you should take a bath just before midnight to wash away all the bad stuff.
- Don’t lend anything. If you let something valuable leave your house you could have bad luck all year round, there are even places where people They don’t even take out the trash from their house on the first day for fear of throwing away their good luck.
- Make a lot of noise! In many cultures it is believed that noise scares away evil spirits, which is why it is common for church bells to ring at midnight. So it is recommended to celebrate the last bell by making a lot of noise so that bad vibes do not accompany you for the next 365 days.
- Don’t eat chicken. It is believed that eating birds such as turkey and chicken can curb abundance since these animals dig up the ground to get their food, which has a direct reference to attracting poverty.
- Distribute animals. Whether they are figures of elephants, pigs or sheep, it is believed that both giving and receiving them is good luck.
- The first day of the year determines the rest. It is said that on January 1 you should avoid fights, conflicts, debts and tears, as you will attract bad fortune throughout the coming year.
Do you know other super effective rituals to welcome the new year?