Word: hogmanay
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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...