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TRADITION 3: CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS OR RITUALS

  • CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS, TRADITIONS OR RITUALS IN YOUR COUNTRY:

    Each school choose a TYPICAL CHRISTMAS CUSTOM, TRADITION OR RITUAL and explain it here to the other students of the other schools. They can write, add a photo, a link...etc to explain it better. The students of the other schools  can ask or make comments on what they think about the other's traditions

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    Hi, my name is Inés and I am from Spain .In Spain , the day 6th of January we celebrate the 3 wise men day. In the morning we open presents that the 3 wise men give us .Then we breakfast with our family and eat a sweet that is similar to a biscuit or a cake with cream inside.

     

    Hi guy ♥ My name is Sofia ♥ and I´m from Slovakia ♥. We have the celebration on the 6th of January too. We caled it Three Kings. In the morning we go to the church, and we pray.

    At Christmas evening we throw the shoe behind the back. If the shoe is turn with its point to the door it means somebody will live the home. ☺ ♥ ☺

    Hello, my name is Kamila. I am from Slovakia and I am writing about our Xmass customs. In our country we set the table where under the table-cloth put the change, scale from the fish not to be ill and poor. We sit all family around the table and cut the apple. If there is a star we all will be healthy. Some family have 12 dishes / garlic, wafer, soup, fish....

    Hi my name is Nefeli. I am from Greece and i am writing for Christmas customs. In our country "precursor" of the Christmas tree we could say that was the christoxylo or dodekameritis or otherwise skarkanzalos. It was a solid and thick wood from pear tree, Wild Cherry or another barbed tree. Our ancestors prefer the thorny trees because, according to popular tradition, removed the demonic creatures and goblins away from home. In the villages of northern Greece in christoxylo may have been the most beautiful, strong and thick pine or olive, which can and in the summer also had prepared for that night.The villagers placed the christoxylo in the home fireplace Christmas Eve in order to burn then fire from Christmas until Epiphany. The fire had to be lit for two reasons: to heat the Virgin Mary and Christ on the cold cave of Bethlehem, but to stay out of the house goblins.

    Christmas celebrations in Lithuania are rich in ceremony and tradition. Christmas Eve, or Kūčios, is the more symbolic and reflective of the two days. In preparing for the holiday, the house is thoroughly cleaned; unresolved conflicts among friends and family are reconciled; ancestors and recently departed souls are remembered; the dinner table is laid with hay and linen to symbolize the birth of Christ in the manger; and 12 dishes are prepared to represent the 12 apostles.

    Titas from Lithuania

     

    Christmas traditions don't differ much from other European countries, as they also include various "magic", involving throwing shoes and pouring hot wax into water, and then predicting the year from what the shape resembles. On Christmas Eve, we eat 12 dishes so that we would be "full for every month of the year". At the table the believers share a thin piece of what seems to be "bread", in Lithuanian it is called "kalėdaičiai".

     

    -Lukas from Lithuania

    The meal served on Christmas Eve did not include meat, milk products or eggs. Even so, the meal was memorable. It consisted of twelve dishes, one for each Apostle. Typical dishes were beet soup, mushroom-filled dumplings, herring and other fish, bread, boiled or baked potatoes, cooked sauerkraut, mushrooms, dice-sized hard biscuits with poppy seed “milk”, cranberry pudding, and whole wheat with honey. The meal was eaten leisurely and solemnly. Everyone was expected to eat some of each dish served; it was considered unlucky to skip a dish. Leaving the table before everyone was finished eating was also considered unlucky.

    Gabija from Lithuania.

    TRADITIONAL CHRISMAST 1

    CLUE 1

    * Spanish people eat them in new years eve 

    CLUE 2

    * If you eat them you will be lucky

    CLUE 3

    * They can be green or black

    TRADITIONAL CHRISMAST 2

    CLUE 1 

    * What do the 3 wise man bring you?

    CLUE 2

    * What do we prepare for the camels?

    CLUE 3 

    * What do the 3 wise men bringo to children who behave badly?

    Alberto Oliva from Spain

     

    Hello to everyone!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

    ​1.Which one of the 3 songs in this video from Greece, are the Chrismas carols?

    ​2. Which of the 2 carols you like better, the Chrismas carols or the Epiphany carols and why?

    ​2. What is the first thing, we want to decorate in the class?

    ​GOOD LUCK!!!