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Everybody knows about toasting in the new year with a glass of champagne, but do you have any other New Year's Eve rituals?
My friend George rings in the New Year by going from room to room in his house, banging on a pot. Then he takes a statue of Jesus, backs out of his front door so that Jesus leaves last. Then he walks around the house and then re-enters the house, with Jesus entering first. He does that every year.
Then my mother's neighbor, Penny, refuses to let anyone in her house enter or leave the house until a male adult (who is NOT a relative) enters the house after the ball drops. So, if you are Penny's son, and you are outside the house at midnight, Penny won't let you back in the house until you can get an adult male to come to your house and enter first.
My only strange New Years tradition seems to be that most of the time I sleep through it
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a beer drinking sheep wearing a cheerleader's outfit?????
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I learned that ritual from Pov, when we were trying out for the new Angel and the Ape movie!
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Was that the story with the McGriddles? I get them all mixed up.
Usually I sleep through it, too - but this year I'm making up a preparation for the garden called "Three Kings" since it contains gold, frankincense and myrrh. You grind it for an hour from 11:30 to 12:30 on New Year's Eve, then apply it on the land on Epiphany. It's a biodynamic preparation and even I think it sounds a bit strange.... These things have proven themselves to me, so I just turn off the western logic machine and proceed.
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Your mother's neighbor, Penny, is actually practicing a common Wiccan ritual called 'First Footer.' Ideally the non-relative male should be just beyond puberty, and a virgin. He should be wearing a red cap and should pass out coins to everyone in the household, while remaining silent until after all the coins are distributed. Then you are supposed to share your feast and mulled wine with him. ((Wink, wink, he leaves as a virgin as well. Sorry!))
Many such rituals seem silly, but they were very important to people throughout the ages. I still speed through a protection ritual every time we leave the house, to protect our cats and the house itself.
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I suppose that makes a sort of sense. Although on some level I still suspect that Penny is just trying to lure men into the house for some sweet midnight luvin
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Well, you can all rest easy now. My brother went over to Penny's this morning to set her family free. Apparently, they had nothing better to do while locked in the house than drink, because they were all quite glassy eyed from wine intake this morning
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Apart from attempting to drink my body weight in vodka (but then who doesn't?) I have a superstition about the first person I wish a happy New Year to. As a child I was told that they would set my luck for the year.
If I've had a crap time I avoid that person at the next New Year.....
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quote:Originally posted by Saturn Girl: Your mother's neighbor, Penny, is actually practicing a common Wiccan ritual called 'First Footer.' Ideally the non-relative male should be just beyond puberty, and a virgin. He should be wearing a red cap and should pass out coins to everyone in the household, while remaining silent until after all the coins are distributed. Then you are supposed to share your feast and mulled wine with him. ((Wink, wink, he leaves as a virgin as well. Sorry!))
Many such rituals seem silly, but they were very important to people throughout the ages. I still speed through a protection ritual every time we leave the house, to protect our cats and the house itself.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Hmmm... That could be a difficult ritual to follow in this day and age. With public perception what it is, the practitioners could find themselves in serious trouble for giving alcohol to a minor. Not to consider the problem of finding a young male willing to admit being a virgin.
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Our Tradition of First Footing sounds pretty similar. Ideally you need to find a non relative to do this. But you need a tall dark haired man. He must enter the front door and carry money, a lump of coal and some food. Then you give him a drink and some food. A real traditional first footer can get quite a few drinks inside him in one street.
I think its supposed to mean that you will have enough food and money and heat for the coming year.
Unfortunately the tradition seems to be dying out in the cities nowadays.
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Me and the wife continued our tradition of staying in, gettin' drunk, and hot sex. Not so complicated as some of your other New Year's rituals, but we do usually execute some pretty challenging stuff....
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