CRAZY CHRISTMAS TRADITIONSTRUE OR FALSE?
1. In Japan, the traditional Christmas meal is kentucky fried chicken. KFC is so popular that people have to book a table weeks in advance.
2. In Scotland, normally the men wear kilts. However, on Christmas Eve, the women wear kilts and the men wear normal trousers.
3. In Caracas, Venezuela, they travel to their traditional Christmas mass (‘misa de aguinaldo’) on roller skates.
4. In Greenland, the traditional Christmas food is raw whale skin with blubber and a dead bird wrapped in seal skin that has been left to rot.
5. In Turkey, the Christian minority never put up Christmas trees. Why not? Because they love cats, and cats attack Christmas trees.
6. In Russia, Santa wears green clothes instead of red.
7. In Australia, the Prime Minister traditionally throws the first snowball on Christmas day. No one may throw a snowball before the Prime Minister.
8. In Norway, people hide their brooms before they go to bed. They believe that if they don’t do this, a witch will steal it and use it to fly.
9. In Austria men dress up as Krampus, the evil demon. They chase naughty children and drag them (supposedly) to Hell.
10. In Guatemala the people clean everything in their house during the week before Christmas. Then they burn it, along with a figure of the devil on top of the rubbish.
11. In England on Christmas Eve, young adults do 12 shots of different alcoholic drinks. Supposedly, this is for the twelve apostles. One of them is actually vinegar. This is called the ‘Judas shot’.
12. In Portugal, people set a place for dead relatives. They believe that this will bring them luck.
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All information taken from: https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/worlds-weirdest-christmas-traditions/. Accessed on December 17, 2020.
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