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Tradition-hopping for New Year

New Year celebrations, with their symbols and rituals and hangovers, are generally aimed at chucking the past year and anticipating even presuming a new year of renewal, prosperity and good fortune.

The annual Xmas Eve animal summit

There’s an old Mexican folktale that claims at midnight on Christmas Eve the animals – goats and pigs, cows and sheep, and whoever just happens to drop by, most in a misanthropic mood, including the wise old owl, who occasionally speaks in Latin – will lay about the barn and discuss vital issues until dawn.