I think everyone celebrates New Year with their own traditions
What about your family customs? #allabout #allaboutholiday
#canbeinteresting
✌🏻Here’re few strangest New Year’s Traditions from around the World
🇪🇸SPAIN
💭In Spain, it is customary to eat 12 grapes – one at each stroke of the clock at midnight on New Year’s Eve
Each grape represents good luck for one month of the coming year
In bigger cities like Madrid and Barcelona, people gather in main squares to eat their grapes together and pass around bottles of cava(spanish wine)
🇵🇦PANAMA
💭In Panama, the New Year’s tradition for good luck is burning effigies of everyone and anyone famous(politics, tv-stars etc)
🇵🇷PUERTO RICO
💭In some parts of Puerto Rico they throw pails of water out of their windows to drive away evil spirits
💬P.S. To memorize:
Customary(ˈkʌstəmərɪ) - местные обычаи
Stroke of the clock(strəuk) - удар часов
Gather in main square - собираться на главной площади
Pass around bottles of wine - раздавать бутылки вина
Effigy(ˈef.ə.dʒi) - чучело/фигура
Pail of water(peɪl) - ведро воды
Evil spirit(ˈi:vl ˈspɪrɪt) - злой дух
