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Even if you don’t believe in them, superstitions, like walking under a ladder or how breaking a mirror equates to seven years bad luck, have stood the test of time. Traditions, like superstitions, span continents and cultures, and there’s no shortage of superstitions when it comes to ringing in a new year. Born and raised in Montreal, Canada, every New Year’s Eve for as long as I can remember, my mother has placed seven new pennies on the windowsill in our family home, a tradition she continues to this day. I asked my mother about this tradition when I started to pen this article and she said she couldn’t tell me where it comes from, only that “it’s just something I’ve always done for good luck.” Food plays a major role in New Years Eve traditions around the world. In Japan, eating toshikoshi soba noodles is considered especially auspicious, as the noodles themselves represent a crossing from one year over to the next. In Spain, guzzling down a dozen grapes (one grape for each month of the year) just before the clock strikes midnight, is thought to bring good luck in the year ahead.
