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April 26, 2024

New Year's Eve - looking forward to the New Year

Celebrating New Year's Eve with friends and / or family - looking forward to the New Year!

New Year's Eve customs and all sorts of faith and superstition:

The New Year's Eve dinner should be taken with family or friends, because the food "in the circle" of his neighbor symbolizes the protection from demons that can not destroy this circle. The whole day revolves around the evil spirits (bad habits, vices or just the bad luck that one had this year).

But it's also about the anticipation of the next year. Why not give away a little luck or play with luck.

Give lucky clover a present:

Lucky clover (Oxalis tetraphylla) is one of the sauerkle species and is an onion plant. One can buy the onions, also in the net. The bulbous lucky clover is even edible. Why not give away the lucky clover onions for the * self sowing of happiness *. In a pretty cloth bag or as a self-packed * gift in the tin *.
It is also a nice gesture to give each guest or friend / acquaintance a little pig of marzipan or a homemade penny / cent, because it is important to try his luck with the smallest coin. Ladybirds, small chimney sweeps or horseshoes are also lucky charms, which should bring the one who is bestowed with luck to the next year.

Gambling or looking into the future:

For those who are sitting at the table on New Year's Eve, I buy a scratch card and put it in the neatly folded napkin. Then it is played, who is allowed to rub first and next.
Or you just buy a handful of scratch cards and play for the lots that are there. So the last luck of the old year is captured, of course, with other games.
Why not bake your own bread as in Greece and put a coin / s in the dough. For the one who gets the slice of bread with the coin, luck will always be on the side next year.
Pouring lead to look to the future is still the most popular New Year's Eve thing. The molten lead in the spoon is quickly tipped into cold water and then interpreted the form that tells us what the new year holds for us. Good to know: in the past, this oracle was made with wax, which of course is still possible today.
For the little ones there is the gummy bear oracle. All you need is a bag of gummy bears: each family member can draw five bears with their eyes closed. Decisive is not the order, but the color combination. Red stands for energy and love, yellow for ambition and wealth, green for trust and wisdom, white for illusion and healing power, orange for cheerfulness and creativity.

Fortunately hip:

Bake some hipsters and put in small pieces of spells (like the fortune cookies) before they are quickly folded into pockets, then offer them as a small highlight or put a hip on the plate for every participant in the Silverster dinner.
On New Year's Eve, the donuts or the Berliners should not be missed, because the spirits should vote peacefully. What the ghosts think of Berliners with mustard, the still popular New Year's Eve prank, which the baker likes to do.
Somewhere in between, there is Dinner for One (for those who would like to see it), which is almost unknown in England but belongs to New Year's Eve with us since the 70s.
At the turn of the year, clinking is triggered to remind happiness of its duty. The clinking should be heard clearly (but not the clash of shattering glasses).
Then with a lot of noise, the evil spirits of the last year are expelled. For this you have to make a lot of noise, if not with bangs, then just rattle with the cooking pots.
The ensuing midnight soup is to bring riches and blessings into the house.
And if you want to know exactly what the new year is like, you put half an onion under your pillow that night, which then tells the sleeping person in a dream what the next year will bring.
For New Year's Day there is a carp and a scale of the eaten carp carried in the purse, will provide for the whole year for rich blessings.
It is also said that a lady who succeeds in splitting the tail of the carp into two exactly equal parts becomes a virgin again. Did you ever succeed?
If you can not make friends with the carp, it will delight your loved ones with a lentil soup, the plates will have to be eaten empty (so do not fill up so much). So you at least provide enough money in the next year.
According to the superstition, there should be no poultry on New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve, because then you will lose your fortune. Nevertheless, the Rhinelanders defy this custom with their New Year's goose.
In the afternoon there are Neujahrchen, small waffeltüten from Eiserkuchenteig, which are considered lucky charm, or other good luck pastries.