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...used to sprinkle the floor with ashes on New Year's Eve, then look for footprints in the morning: steps leading toward the door portended a death; steps entering meant a birth in the family. Texans believed eating black-eyed peas would bring good luck. In Scottish Hogmanay celebrations, you want the first foot that crosses the threshold after midnight to belong to a dark-haired man bearing a small gift, for that will bless the year to come...
...birthplace of Auld Lang Syne is also the home of Hogmanay, a spectacularly rousing four-day celebration that welcomes the New Year with fire, music, parades and then some more fire. The party starts on Dec. 29 with a 15,000-strong song-filled candlelight procession and fire festival through Edinburgh and ends with the symbolic burning of a Viking longship. Days of parades, concerts, dog races and fireworks follow...
...Scotland, the Hogmanay Party--named for the Scottish New Year's Eve--will be launched with a torchlight procession through Edinburgh, culminating atop Carlton Hill with a huge bonfire. The city center will then be transformed into one blazing outdoor party for some 200,000 hardy celebrators. Nightly festivities will continue throughout the week. While much of the entertainment is free, tickets are required for such events as the rock concert in Princes Street Gardens, which will have a floodlighted Edinburgh Castle as its backdrop. Though the Scottish city can be cold in late December, wool sweaters, drams of single...
...Scotsmen, New Year's Eve is Hogmanay, a time for revelry and rejoicing...
...generations, a great crowd of Scotsmen gathered atop London's Ludgate Hill last Hogmanay to sing under the smoky dome of St. Paul's. After midnight the revellers walked away. Recently the following appeared in the London Times' "agony column"; Will the bearded Scot who greeted the New Year by stamping on my foot on steps of St. Paul's cathedral while singing "Auld Lang Syne" kindly send 30 shillings to pay medical attendance and this advertisement? - COLLEEN IN GREEN...