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Superstitions
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| To have good health throughout the next year, eat an apple on Christmas Eve. |
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| Eat plum pudding on Christmas and avoid losing a friend before next Christmas. |
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| On Christmas Eve all animals can speak. However, it is bad luck to test this superstition. |
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| The child born on Christmas Day will have a special fortune. |
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| Wearing new shoes on Christmas Day will bring bad luck.
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| In Ireland it is believed the gates of Heaven open at midnight on Christmas Eve.
Those who die then go straight to Heaven.
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| If you refuse a mince pie at Christmas dinner, you will have bad luck for the coming day. |
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| If you eat a raw egg before eating anything else on Christmas morning, you will be able to carry heavy weights. |
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| Snow on Christmas means Easter will be green.
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| Good luck will come to the home where a fire is kept burning throughout the Christmas season.
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| Place shoes by side on Christmas Eve to prevent a quarreling family."
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| A clear star-filled sky on Christmas Eve will bring good crops in the summer.
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| A blowing wind on Christmas Day brings good luck. |
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| In Greece, some people burn their old shoes during the Christmas season to prevent misfortunes in the coming year.
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| In the Swedish countryside, from cockcrow to daybreak on Christmas morning the trolls (wicked elves) roam about. |
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| In Devon shire, England, a girl raps at the henhouse door on Christmas Eve. If a rooster crows, she will marry within the year.
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| You will have as many happy months in the coming year, as the number of houses you eat mince pies in during Christmastime.
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| Shout 'Christmas Gift' to the first person knocking on your door on Christmas Day and expect to receive a gift from the visitor. |
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