Argentina
Using pink underwear
If your searching for you Prince Charming, your other half, or the future father/mother of your child, you just have to put on a pair of pink underpants to attract love. This tradition is also known in Mexico and other countries, with the exception that they're not pink but red underwear.
Lifting your right foot
At 12 o'clock you have to stand on your left foot and take a step forward in order to start with you right foot, this one is easy, it doesn't have much to it.
Australia
Making a lot of noise
How? Banging pots and pans, while walking through the city's street in the middle of the night.
Brazil
Dressing in white
This way you scare off any bad spirit that you don't want roaming around, this color of clothing also symbolizes peace and harmony.
Jumping 7 waves
When midnight arrives, you should jump seven waves, which represent each day of the week, this will bring you good luck. How fun will it be to spend New Years on the beach. Surely, if only the water would be as pleasant in Tijuana and San Diego this time of year In the Southern Hemisphere, it's actually summer during December and January.
Taking gifts to the Lemanja Goddess
Lemanja is the Goddess of water, and like any other women she loves presents, especially flowers. You are supposed to go and throw them into the sea, and if they come back it means she didn't accept them, but don't worry, you can always try again next year.
Great Britain
Watching Jools Holland's Hootenanny
This prerecorded television show is transmitted at 11 pm on BBCTwo. It's famous for being a very bad show, but they keep running it and people keep watching it.
Chile
Eating lentils
A spoonful of this legume to bring money, work and therefore a stable economy to the household is a very common tradition for this country. If you're not very fond of them, man up! It's for a good cause.
Sweeping the house inside out
If at midnight you see a lady sweeping like a crazy person, don't think she is a clean freak. It's custom meant helps to get rid of any bad energy. You throw out any "bad vibes" in your leaving space for anything good that has yet to come.
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Hugging the opposite sex
This will bring you luck in love. Very similar to the mistletoe tradition.
Colombia
Walking for a block with an empty suitcase
Want to travel a lot? Go through the main entrance of you house and take a small tour down your street carrying a suitcase. So if you want to be backpacking worldwide you know what you have to do.
Putting three potatoes under your bed
Pealed, half pealed and not pealed at all. At midnight, you take one out without looking:
the pealed one means bad omen, half pealed nor here nor there, and not pealed means good luck year round.
Venezuela
Wearing yellow underwear
Means good luck, but in some countries it's used for money.
Giving away hallaca
It a sort of tamale wrapped in a banana leaf which according to tradition ensures good luck and strengthens friendships.
Ecuador
Burning a doll
It's for getting rid of everything old and welcoming everything new. Men dress up as widows and ask for money in the streets in order to "save their husband from being burned". Weird right?
Puerto Rico
Throwing buckets of water out the window
Throwing buckets of water purifies the household, this is a traditions inspired by African religions. It also helps to clean up the sideways with very little effort.
El Salvador
Emptying an egg in a glass
At 12 o'clock you should crack it and leave by the window until morning. According to the form it takes, it will mean what the future has destined for you.
Guatemala
Throwing twelve pennies
You should throw them outside your house with your back to the street at midnight.
Finland
Pouring molten metal in cold water
They can predict the future this way. How? We have no idea, by surely they do.
Netherlands
Eating oliebollen
Fried dough balls with powdered sugar.
Philippines
Turning off all the lights
This will get rid of bad spirits. Also opening all doors, windows and drawers, and then run around, as closing them helps too.
Russia
Writing a wish on a piece of paper
Afterwards, you should burn it, pour the ashes in a glass of champagne and drink it before 12.01. Ugh!!
Scotland
Receiving gifts
Immediately after the first bell at midnight has struck, the first person to arrive to a neighbor's house should bring the following gifts: a coin, bread, coal, salt, whiskey; all of this represents prosperity, food, flavor and a good mood.
Spain
Eating a grape every time the bells struck
You have to make a wish each time you eat one. It can be hard if you haven't thought about it and if the grapes are a bit too big it can be harder, specially if you just had dinner. So, if you follow this tradition leave some room for them.
Turkey
Throwing pomegranates from a balcony out into the street
The bigger mess the make, the happier your year will be. Put your arm into it!
Mexico
Blowing fireworks
Fireworks are known traditions, which each year dims a bit more due to the harms it has on pets' hearing. This is also a worldwide tradition, although it's much more common to see them in the streets in Mexico and not just at big, controlled events.
Dinning with family
Much like Christmas dinner, with tamales and turkey, this is a Mexican must-have.
Which ritual do you follow?
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