- People in austria dress up as krampus and the kids who end up on stants naughty list get visited by krampus and the celebrate it on december 5th the call it krampusnacht they do it in many towns in australia and many other neighborhood countries.
2.People in japan on december 25th the go to kfc and get fried chicken for their families and eat fried chicken on christmas and the started doing this in the 1970s is when the estiblied this tradtion and christmas is not the big in japan and specially packed delivery orders months in advance.
3.People in la berana, italy their italian families celebrate with wine-drinking witches we don’t mean the alcoholic aunties from doggy side families twelve days santas vist on the eve of the epiphany (january 5th) families cross italy leave out a glass vino and a plate of sausages ‘la berana’ who pops dow the chimney on her broom stick and according to forklores the old lady knocked back an invitation from the three wise men to witness the birth of christ and was so devastated about missing it spends every christmas time gliding around the country searching for baby jesus and boiling out presents for good children and coal for the naunghty children.
4.People in norway are given no quarter in a season tradition that supposedly dates back to pagan superstition norwegains hide their brooms on christmas eve son mischievous witches can steal then a fly off into the winter night to do witch business there are some holes in the story.
5.In venezuela they celebrate christmas right on christmas morning people light fire crackers to wake everyone up then everyone straps on roller skates and rollers-boogie to mass after all praying families and friends then get together to dance,eat,and make music the skating tradition is said to have started as southern hemisphere response to sledding and has grown sp popular that streets are closed to traffic in venezuela’s capital city of caracas on christmas morning to keep skaters safe.
6.In iceland christmas ruled by jolakotturinn, the yule cat a gigantic black feline that roams the countryside devouring anyone who isn’t wearing any new clothing. the legend of the yule cat was said to have been started farmers to frighten their workers into completing their work by christmas yay capitalism. Because a mountain-sized cat eating you for being off-trend isn’t frightening enough. Iceland christmas tradition aslo includes the yule lads. Like a bizarro-world version of santa’s elves the 13 yule lads roam the countryside bedeviling all. A sample of their ways stekkjarstarum,(sheep harsser) is known for how two wooden legs (and for harassing sheep) stufur (stubby) steals pans to eat the crust therein gluggagaegir (window peepper) looks in windows for something to steal and ketkrokur (meat hook) uses hook to steal meat.
7.In oaxaca,mexico christmas is all about radishes december 23 is noche de rabanos the night of the radish an annual radish orgy were hundreds of artists carve thousands of vegetables into elaborate scense from the bible and contemporary life. Because true art is transitory the radishes quickly not away tradition is said to have started in the mid 18th century when catholic friars bearing oddly shaped radishes caused at the oaxaca christmas market tv would not be invented for several centuries you see.
- Gathering with friends and family to celebrate the birth of the big baby J is ok,but the pre-christain welsh celebration of mari lwyd is on another level. It works like this on new years eve groups revelers dressed as ghost affix a horse skull on a pole decorate it and go from house to house with their grotesque puppet singing a tradition song that begs for entry instead of responding “dear god,why won’t you leave us alone?” those inside the house hurl rhyming challenges and insults at the ghost and their dead horse puppet a pagan rap battle ensues in which side tries ro verbally best the other if team dead horse wins they are invited in for drinks and food if the home owners win they are presumablly allowed to go bacl to bed
