With how the last few years have been we all need all the good luck we can get 😫

As an Appalachian, I’m in my feels. We have such a rich tradition but everyone forgets about us so I loved the shout out.

German here! I know the tradition of pouring lead as Bleigiesen (pronouncend like Blaygeesen) or nowadays Wachsgiesen (waksgeesen). there are books and internet resources on what diffrent symbols you see in the wax mean, but you can also make up your own definitions

Hiya! This is AWESOME! Of course my mom tells me all our Romani traditions that aren't shared by colonization today when the video is posted 😂. We have burning juniper branches dipped in juniper oil, sharing stories around a fire, a practice called first footing as well which is the first person steps in a house after midnight offers the family in the house bread, salt, and some homemade oil. Who doesn't love party hopping and going on after midnight? 😂 and lastly my family specific Romani practice is NOT wearing red funny enough. Red is the color of death and ancestral connection in my family culture. My family will wear either black or green for good luck 😊. Every Romani culture is vastly different and even between families sometimes. This is mine and we feel very comfortable sharing. So ya! Imma wear black underwear and a green shirt and ya feel free to burn some juniper and share stories and have a great meal! Because at the end of the day sharing stories, making stories, food, connection, and fun: that's the point of New Years. Baxtalo Nevo Bersh! (Happy New Year!)

Definitely in Louisiana, we eat black eyed peas, cabbage, ham, etc for money, good luck, and so many other things! Thank you for sharing these!

As someone who grew up in the Ozarks this felt like a warm hug. I had forgotten and now all those memories are rushing back. Thank you for making this. I needed it. 🥹💖

Finnish pagan here! The tin is sold in the shape of a horse shoe, then we melt it, drop it to the water and place it in front of a light and interpretate the shadow 😁 I use beeswax/candle wax instead! Some people also go to sauna on new years to cleanse themselves and have a fresh start to a new year!

German lead pouring - bleigießen is said bly-gee-sen. The ß is a double s called an eszett.

I do the house cleaning, which I think I saw in some anime. But it's the "fresh/clean start" as well as helping ward off seasonal depression.

German here! it's called Bleigießen! German for "lead pouring" or "lead casting". Have done it since kindergarten. so much fun. You can buy whole sets around New Year's, no other tools needed. Like you said, we're not using lead anymore but mostly tin or wax.

An Irish new year tradition is banging on the walls and doors with bread to chase out the bad luck and bring in the good!

Scottish here there are a lot of traditional things with hogmany but the first footing is when the first person to enter your house or if you are to first to another bring a gift of coal for the fire, whisky, and food to ensure good luck for the new year.🎉

My husband and I didn't grow up celebrating any holidays or New Years... so we decided to create our own family traditions. I love to decorate and my daughter and I plan and decorate a Yule tree every year with a different theme. New Year's Eve and Day we spend together. On NYE, we pull from my Albanian heritage and feast on Lakror (Albanian spinach pie) New Year's Day is when we do our gift exchange. We start the morning with monkey bread and fruit and bacon, then presents. Then for dinner I make a traditional Sauerbraten (my husband is German) and we light his grandmother's German candles. We like to start the year in appreciation of each other and our ancestors. ❤

I wish you and everyone a very happy new year and HEAPS of good luck! 💗🎉🎆 Also i think this might just be a personal believe but fireworks were for scaring away bad luck!

We save the Cork from our asti/ proseco/ champagne (whatever fizz you are drinking) that we drink on new years eve into new year day and keep it all year to bring good luck. It's seen as unlucky to throw it away or lose it. You throw away the Cork, when it is replace with the new one. 🍾🍾🍾

My Family is Pennsylvania Dutch (German) and we eat pork and sauerkraut for good luck and money in the New Year

Our family makes cabbage rolls every new years to represent bringing in "cabbage" (money.) We are from Appalachia 😊

I was raised in New Mexico and in Albuquerque Pozole is the traditional meal on New Year’s Day. My family was taught the recipe by our friend and next door neighbor neighbor Quata who is Mexican and Navajo. It’s a warming spicy stew from Mexican cuisine made from hominy, chicken or pork, onions, chili peppers, sometimes garnished with lime, avocado, and cilantro. There are many different varieties, but all are made with hominy which is dried corn treated with lye so they swell up. I make it every year.

It's also important to note that Filipino NYE traditions are often carried over from Chinese feng shui practices. There's certainly a strong correlation between Chinese cultural traditions and Filipino traditions given that most of our perception of "luck" in the PH is definitely a mixture of Filipino and Chinese practices. We even give out hong baos (red packets or 'hong baos') during Christmas Day and New Year's :DDD

That Saint silvesters divination is performed in Spain too

My mom is British and we always had to open the back door and the front door. The back to let the old year out and the front to welcome the new year in

I grew up in the ozarks and it was always said in my family to eat black eyed peas and cabbage to bring in money in the new year. So happy to hear you mention it ❤ this will be my first year following the tradition (except I’m using turnip greens instead of cabbage)

My great grandmother used to fix and consume oyster soup on New Year’s Day.

New Years in Japan is a HUGE thing! A lot of it has been adapted or cut in the diaspora community in the US, but there are some things we still do. Always clean and cook before the new year, as the first three days you're not supposed to do either of those things lol The spirits around come in to cleanse/bless your home during that time, so you're not supposed to disturb them (my family still usually cooks breakfast though, and we always clean up after eating). There's a complete menu of food for NYE and NYD called Osechi Ryori, all with special meanings and luck. It's essentially a second Thanksgiving, and you go to visit family at their homes (and eat), and host people at your place, too. There are specific decorations, like a bamboo-pine-and-blossom display, and mochi-making. NYE, if you can, you go to a Buddhist or Shinto temple to ring the bells at midnight and bring in good fortune. Honestly one of the biggest holidays of the year, especially as far as prepping goes :)

I am so excited to eat our 12 grapes this year. We already bought them, and picked the smallest ones for our grandma (so they're easier to eat!) 💕

I hope for another good year. Cheers 2023, but I’m ready for 2024 and way more better things for my life and help the world find a bit more peace in the new year.

In northern England, Scotland and the Isle of Man we do ´first footing’ where someone (tallest and darkest hair usually) leaves before the count down and comes back into the house after the twelfth chime carrying fuel, food, money or booze for good luck!

hi im from southern US specifically NC. I normally follow Italian American folkloric traditions but for new years my family has always carried on the southern tradition of eating collard greens (for health), black eyed pea's (for wealth), and hog jaws (for wisdom). i think it's a wonderful tradition. My grandmother passed on thanksgiving of this year and i have recruited my family to continue the tradition in her memory. Blessings and Happy New Years 🎉

my family goes outside and bangs pots and pans and makes lots of noise at midnight. my friend actually started a tradition in our group of eating ice cream first thing after midnight, to start the year on a sweet note, or i'll eat a Ferrero Roche, since its covered in gold, tastes sweet, and is fancy (idk how expensive they actually are, but for me they symbolize luxury, and therefor wealth). i also light 7 day candles around new years for me and my partner, and burn a bay berry candle new years eve or day, but if its new years eve, it has to go out after midnight, or so i read. i also do tarot card readings on new years eve for my friends and on new years day for myself (no particular reason they're in that order, just convenience).

I'm Filipino-American, and my mom mentioned eating round fruits but also if you're wearing clothes with pockets to have money in them on New Years Eve.

I wasn't planning on doing anything too special, other than making sure my altar was clean, but imagine my surprise when the dinner ingredients my sister brought for our NYE were pork sausages and lentils! I don't think she did it intentionally, but I'm cooking them up right now for the evening (and for leftovers tomorrow).

I can't speak for France, but in Quebec, the Feast of St-Sylvester is New Year's Eve, as far as I know. Both Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve have a Réveillon (which means you stay up past midnight and have a big feast after going to church on Christmas Eve or after ringing in the New Year on New Year's Eve), although the NYE Réveillon is getting less popular as the younger generations are starting to go out to bars, clubs and friend parties instead of family-based celebrations. I grew up with both Réveillons and still celebrate the NYE Réveillon with my immediate family. Practicing French Canadian Catholics would also usually ask for the "Bénédiction paternelle" (Paternal Blessing) on New Year's Day. My mother and her siblings usually requested it from their father until my grandmother passed away and he remarried (his second wife hated his children, but that's a long story). I am a little superstitious and sort of believe it to be bad luck to not do the countdown to midnight on NYE, if you are able to.

We save something from our Christmas dinner and turn it into something else for nye dinner (I.e. chicken bones into stock for gravy or rolls into breadcrumbs) to bring a fresh perspective to the new year!

Hello from Brazil, axé, Odoyá yemanjá! ❤️❤️❤️

We smash pomegranates outside the front door and the more seeds that pop out, the more abundance you bring into the new year🥰 not sure where it originated

A bit late to the New Year's party, but I have a tradition from a region in Belgium. You have to eat sauerkraut (with mashed potatoes and different kinds of hams and sausages), and, most importantly, put a coin under the plate (or keep it in your hand during the whole meal) to ensure good finances for the upcoming year! Once you're done with the meal, wrap the coin in aluminium foil (or anything that'll allow you that this was the coin used) and keep it close to you to make sure the good finances go your way! If you give it away, your wealth will also go away!

My mom always made some type of greens and black-eyed peas.

I live and practice in Appalachia and yep we still shoot off guns at midnight. Wonderful video and Happy New Year❤

After my dog (my familiar) had a health scare several years ago, I started a new years tradition to bring her good health. She’s afraid of fireworks so every new years at midnight she’s snuggled up against me for comfort. I give her a whole body massage while I repeat things like “you are healthy, you are whole”. I focus all my intention on it. It’s worked so far. As for me, I wear black for luck and personal power and I think I’ll eat delicious soba this year, following the Japanese tradition. Happy New Years everyone!

my family mainly celebrates lunar new year but we do a couple of things for the calendar new year as well! definitely cleaning the whole house (before January 1 otherwise it's unlucky), eating long noodles for a long life (don't forget to slurp), and verbally expressing gratefulness for the blessings of the past year (thank your elders, your family/friends, and your ancestors).

Thank you for pronouncing Appalachia correctly 🙏🙏🙏

Really appreciate this video!

Love this video!!

Happy New Year all!! Thank you for this, it's fun hearing what everyone's traditions are.

Hi there from NZ my new year ritual is a bonfire I burn bay leaf and we write wishes or goals for ourselfs and family. Burn them and of course a home cleanse on the eve and bringing in the new year house blessing

I love this video !!! It’s so cool to hear about all these different ways of celebrating the New Year!❤

Fun to hear how others celebrate. Thanks!

Aw Hell yeah amazing timing as always! I recently decided to do some hoodoo stuff for the new years so I’ve been preparing since the full moon from Christmas! I’ve decided to cook typical foods encouraging good luck and prosperity as well as wiping stuff down with Florida water and leaving offerings for the saints✨ very excited to be cooking these foods for the first time I and hoping they taste like how I remember as a way to communicate with my ancestors🥰 playing gospel music and reading the psalms and saying prayers too while cooking really raises the vibes too

I'm having pulled pork, coleslaw and black eyed peas for new years, I lived in Alabama for 10 years and that's what my ex husband's family always had, and now I just kinda have it cause I like it. And his family always said it was for luck and they were catholic.

Basically no cleaning on new years day especially laundry, dishes, and floors and trash. Also eat collards, black eyed peas, and cornbread!

Happy New Year

These are all so awesome, and you're right there are a lot similarities! Most of all, thank you for including the filipino nye tradition!

Love all of these!! I just do some mantras to Ganesha or pray to Janus for the new year. Gonna butter up the Gods of new beginnings for the next year and their blessings

I’m so beyond thrilled and honored to have had my ancestors’ tradition included in this video! I’m glad you enjoyed our salted onions 😂 I also had no idea so many traditions involved various legumes!

A german/diasporic tradition I grew up with is the New Year's Pretzel! (Große Neujahrsbrezel) A sweet dough instead of your usual soft pretzel, to be eaten after midnight with your toast (of beverage) or for breakfast new year's morning. My brief research says its common around Pittsburgh, PA (where I'm from) as well as Sandusky, OH. I was shocked when I moved away and found out that's not a common tradition- you can find them in your average grocery store in and around Pittsburgh.

Loved this video! I would absolutely love more videos formatted like this with finding opinions from all around the globe on traditions, Because traditions are so important and beautiful, growing up my grandma always had her traditions we did and we never questioned them they were just a thing and now as a practitioner its even more significant to me, whether the traditions be big or small, and I think I'll forever continue these traditions and pass them down. For example i will continue to make any dish with noodles for long life and health for birthday parties, to remember my grandma who always made pansit on birthdays for long life (btw i was the person who dm'd about the palcing fruits on the table and taping pennies on the window, my grandma also insists we eat black eye peas, hog jaw, cabbage, potatoes and obviously lumpia, pansit and much more)

Yeessss! I can chime in for Italy, lenticchie e cotechino wete indeed for money for what i remember, because of how numerous lentils are when you eat them so they were supposed to represent all the money coming. The Red is actually left over from pagan Italy and as a devotee of Vesta i just get excited about this brcause apparently the red was to represent her sacred fire and rven Vesta's statue was decorated with red fabric because of its connection to blood so life and abundance and everything related to it! Thank you so much for sharing all these amazing practices Frankie!!! BUON ANNO NUOVO!!!

Heyy! The tin thing is also a thing in in Estonia. Tin was used more when we were part of the USSR, but nowdays most use beeswax or something similar to that. I think that this next one is a family tradition (idk its origin lol), but every individual adds a red ornament to the christmas tree on NYE and its supposed to bring luck and money during the upcoming year.

I enjoyed this my family does ham and potato dinner and we exchange gifts and it's very focused on children. We do lots of special goodie bags and stuff for the kids and we all bring something sweet to the dinner or tea .

Thank you so much for this video ! We always celebrate New Year’s Eve/St Sylvestre with family, but 2023 New Year’s Eve is a bit more special. I would love to do a luck bringing craft as we are all gathered together. This summer, for a brief period of time, we were was uncertain that my dad would be with us at the end of the year. He is healthy now fortunately :) but what better way then to end a stressful year with bringing luck and good fortune for 2024 😊

My grandmother always said whatever you do on New Year’s Day is what you will be doing all year long. She learned it from her Appalachian/Irish mother who would never cook or clean on Jan. 1st. 😊

My grandmother told me about Årsgång and we used to do it when I was younger. We're from Sweden. I haven't been thinking about this for years. She has now passed away. Thank you for bringing some magic to me by reminding me :')

My family drinks root beer floats to ring in the new year but this year I will also be making a honey spell jar on New Year's Eve with my intentions for the new year

One thing about Frankie is they will ALWAYS be there when you need them😌 w a great video like timing is really unmatched

Happy New year from Italy. I can confirm that we eat lentils after midnight, on January the first, because it brings money in. We also wear red underwear. Other traditions include: very loud and colorful fireworks (I guess they have the same purpose of shooting a gun, to ward off evil spirits), throwing old stuff you don't want in your life anymore out of the window, and I know there are people who pay attention to the first person they meet on the first because meeting certain kinds of people is an omen of good luck and meeting other people is an omen of bad luck, but I've never done that, so I don't know much about it. My niece is German, and I've seen her and her father do the lead thing. It was so interesting.

You're absolutely a very unique person !!! Wow !! Your chanel is a whole different world ✨️✨️✨️ Sending you all support & love. I wish you all a blissfull & peaceful year !!! And I pray for my Palestinian family who will spend this new year mourning with no celebration !!!

Love that you post this when im planning my first new years ritual lmaoo good luck in the new year everyone!

I also grew up Italian American; my family always did the "throw the dish out the window" thing, which is great, but growing up, we lived in NYC on a busy street in a Jewish neighborhood. So we were just looked at as the crazy family who just throws their china out the window hahahaha

Newbie here, this video was fun 🥳🥳🥳

Happy New Year and good luck to everyone who is watching. We have often made a shepherd's pie for luck on New Years. I'm led to believe this may be a Scottish derived tradition. Now-a-days I make it with lentils instead of meat so I guess I am doubling up on the good luck. :)

Happy New Year, Frankie! Here are some things we do in Romania: - red underwear for good luck and protection against the evil eye - wearing something new to attract new opportunities in the new year - eating fish for agility and the ability to overcome obstacles (traditionally it should be trout, but nowadays salmon is a fancier option. any fish is good, especially freshwater or migratory types) - opening the windows at midnight and making noise to send away the old year - putting money in our pockets before midnight to attract prosperity - eating 12 grapes at midnight and making a wish (I personally don't do this because I don't like grapes lol) - I've read that the weather prediction on the "onion calendar" is also practiced here in some regions but I don't personally know anyone who does it Not a folk belief but a family tradition kept from my great grandpa: we buy instant lottery tickets (? not sure what they're called in English), each person picks one and opens it around midnight. If it's lucky it means the new year will be lucky (you can't usually win more than like 2 dollars per ticket so it's not about the money, it's just symbolic). There are also several types of traditional carols and masked folk dances to scare the old year away and spread good luck to neighbours and family for both the New Year's Eve and the 1st of January morning, that are still common in rural areas and I'd like to bring back once I have kids.

Oh this is perfect! I’ve been disconnected with my magical practice (spiritual is great, have started my relationship with deities) and want to do some stuff, and folk magic seems like my current path to go down

I am second gen American Finnish the tin thing is so interesting I always wanted to try it

Omg wearing red underwear on NYE is also something Turkish people do for prosperity and good luck!

In the Jewish religion, all that pork is a no-no... :-) There is a tradition from Rosh Hashonah (the Jewish new year) that I've heard a number of people have begun including on celebrations of the Gregorian new year -- cutting up apples into wedges that are dipped into honey and eaten for a "sweet" new year. Personally, I usually spend a lot of December 31st journaling and doing some cleaning. My family is also notorious for 12:01am phone calls & texts wishing each other a happy new year, with some calls not going through because the parties involved are trying to call each other at the same time. :-)

Very interested about the Scandinavian practices, I just recently found the region of Norway that an entire line of my family (maternal grandma’s father) is from as recent as 1892. My 2nd great grandpa immigrated from there to Washington state in the early 1900s. I would love to reconnect with that side, although its difficult because my now passed grandma was an orphan who made a Lutheran to Mormon conversion at some point and so a lot of that connection has been lost.

Speaking of German (speaking Europe) diaspora in North America, the Pennsylvania Dutch have a couple of new year's traditions. The shooting guns thing, or 'shooting in the new year' is definitely a thing, actually the Pa Dutch are often given as a primary vector for that entering the US in the first place. Some interesting linguistic terms related to that: der Neiyaahrschitz: the person who goes shooting on the new year di Winsching: the new year's party der Winscher: the new year's party goer Those last two are interesting because they're both formed from the verb 'winsche' meaning to wish, and that's exactly what a Winsching is (wishing, and wisher respectively). People'd not only go around shooting, but also going door to door in groups to (normally formulaically) wish their neighbors good luck for the upcoming year, often with people playing musical instruments (and of course gunfire in the background). House blessing like you mentioned was a thing here too, though typically later in the year a bit on January 6th which is Dreikeenich or three king's day. This is done in catholic parts of Germany too, and though the Pa Dutch are typically lutheran or reformed it's a thing over here as well. Involved three crosses, and these would often also pop up above windows and doors on barns too (though sans the other parts of the chalk inscription) People would however often have what're called Himmelsbrief which're these long formulaic prayers for protection (in typical folk magic shtuff it's sorta prayer sorta spell in a way) which might be recited on certain special days like new years, in the belief it 'recharged' them essentially, but it depends on the particular family which days and if they even have one at all. No black eyed peas up in Pennsylvania but there is pork and Sauergraut. The traditional reason why pork is that it's an animal who 'rutsches' forward as it digs in the ground, with its snout like, and by eating pork we can 'rutsch' forward as well into a good year (rutsche is a Pa Dutch verb meaning roughly to scoot, also used in Pa Dutch English). Turkey and chickens scratch backward, so their eating would bring a 'backwards' character to the following year. I've heard various explanations for the sauerkraut, but the one I learned first was that it cleans you out, readying you for the new year. (and the acidity would help with the fatty pork, culinarily speaking) Pa Dutch folk magic/medicine has a thing about certain foods being cleansing, specifically to get rid of "old blood" (hold over from 4 humors days), like bitter greens on maundy Thursday (Griener Dunnerschdaag, green thursday) or in this case Sauergraut on New Year's. There's really one last thing we do, and this is the one I find most fascinating, which is 'di drei Dinge' or the three things. Specifically, people'd leave three little somethings on the windowsill on new year's eve, with the belief being that you'd have abundance of those three things (or abstract generalizations represented by the specific Ding) for the following year. One example tradition is say a coin, a bit of flour, and a lump of coal for money, food, and fuel in the following year. Now this one interests me most because it's my thought that this may derive from certain traditions found in southwestern German speaking Europe of the early modern period around the figure of Holda, who also went by Abundia, Satia, Herodia, etc. and now survives in folklore of select regions as Frau Holle (immortalized by the Grimm Brothers), and likely other various Frauen found in other regions. Early modern Holda is pretty different from modern Holle, namely in that rather than a static figure living in a place that's paradoxically under a well and in the clouds, Holda was believed to move around leading a procession of spirits often called Holden or Unholden, who were often described as women (sometimes men) dressed in white. The tie-in here is that people would open their doors to this procession, leaving food out overnight, and the idea was that if their way was unobstructed and they had a bit of food then they'd bless the house with good luck, and if not they'd curse it with misfortune. This procession and other parts of the Holda popular belief system at the time was a large influence on the then on-going witchhunts happening in Europe, highly influencing the inquisitor's conspiracy theories about witches meeting up with the devil. All this procession bizz usually coincided with winter and often the 12 days of christmas. My thinking is that the three things are perhaps a reflection of this leaving out a meal that's been pared down and consolidated on new year's eve. I also kinda wonder if the milk (originally booze) and cookies that people traditionally leave out for santa claus actually derives from that, given how many Christmas traditions in the US are come from German ones. Ronald Hutton has an excellent book called the Queens of the Wild that has an entire chapter dedicated to the above Holda stuff. The book in general is awesome and packed with info, but that chapter in particular is very good and extremely informational. edit: forgot the bread and hay. People'd leave bread and hay (back when people were nearly all farmers) out to collect the dew of new year's morning, and eat it (bread for people and hay for animals obviously) for good fortune. An idea of why do this I've read before is that during the reformation old catholic beliefs in priests blessing things on special days like that of saints transmuted into the day itself being holy in a sense and capable of blessing things through natural phenomenon like say dew. An interesting thing was that particularly for the hay, there was a belief that witches (or just your neighbors) would be out at night to try and steal the dew for themselves and so sometimes people'd have night-long bonfire watches outside until the morning. The bread'd typically be in a basket on the clothes line

Pennsylvania Dutch eat pork and sauerkraut for luck

I never knew the gun thing was to scare off evil spirits. So many things we do are cultural but we have forgotten the reason why.

Yesterday I learned that the reason for black eyed peas, greens and cornbread was that at the end of the American civil war, everything had been destroyed except for those things which were considered to only be fit for animals. If not for those things, many would have starved, hence bringing them good luck.

My father had us shoot his rifle in the air one New Year's Eve to bring in good luck. This was a German tradition. I didn't know that. God bless you all. Happy New Year 🎉

Its funny because some of these traditions are also hungarian even thos they are also from other countries. I love how so many countries share traditions even if they aren't near each other!

as someone who lives in the Appalachian region, there’s definitely always gunshots at midnight, and also pork and sour kraut is eaten for good luck too! at least in my experience :)

Hey, I sent it the dime in the black eye peas! I honestly have no idea where is comes from it’s just something my family has always done. A good chunk of my family is southern, coming from North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, with most recent immigrants in the family being from Austria/Hungry/Germany so your guess on its origins is as good as mine!

Love it 🥰 and wait whaaat? You lived in Sweden!? 🤣 where!?

I'm from Louisiana and we use dimes as a way to ward against negative energy. I wonder if the person who puts a dime in the black eye pea dish is from around here.

Guess I'm stealing and tweaking some of these traditions as I do literally nothing on New Year's Eve >:3

Traditional tins were actually banned legally in Finland in 2018 due to high levels of lead in them BUT if I'm not entirely wrong, they may have been able to replace the lead with pure tin but that's something I'm not 100% sure of (after the quickest research ever made). Nowadays people use more bee wax or melted sugar in order to replace the tin because it's environmentally a better choice. Oh and just a small correction: Finland is not a Scandinavian country but a Nordic country it isXD

Im Venezuela its yellow underwear lolol

Getting my period on new years eve so i can have red underwear and get good lucl in the new year 😈