Bizarre Christmas Traditions
In Italy they have no Christmas trees. Instead they
decorate small wooden pyramids with fruit.
Ukranians decorate their trees with an artificial spider
and matching web. A spider web found on Christmas morning
is believed to bring good luck.
The citizens of Caracas, Venezuela block off the streets
on Christmas eve so that people can roller-skate to God’s
house.
It is a British Christmas tradition that a wish made while
mixing the Christmas pudding will come true only if the
ingredients are stirred in a clockwise direction.
A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the
head of a pig prepared with mustard.
Sending red Christmas cards to anyone in Japan constitutes
bad etiquette, since funeral notices there are customarily
printed in red.
In Norway on Christmas Eve, all the brooms in the house
are hidden because long ago it was believed that witches
and mischievous spirits came out on Christmas Eve and
would steal their brooms for riding.