Bizarre Christmas Traditions?Just for fun

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In Italy they have no Christmas trees. Instead they decorate

small wooden pyramids with fruit.

Ukranians decorate their trees with an artificial spider and

matching web. A spider web found on Christmas morning is

believed to bring good luck.

The citizens of Caracas, Venezuela block off the streets on

Christmas eve so that people can roller-skate to God's house.

It is a British Christmas tradition that a wish made while

mixing the Christmas pudding will come true only if the

ingredients are stirred in a clockwise direction.

A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head

of a pig prepared with mustard.

Sending red Christmas cards to anyone in Japan constitutes

bad etiquette, since funeral notices there are customarily

printed in red.

In Norway on Christmas Eve, all the brooms in the house

are hidden because long ago it was believed that witches

and mischievous spirits came out on Christmas Eve and would

steal their brooms for riding.