The Christmas and New Year bring, besides festivities, food and family gatherings, performing various rituals to bring good fortune, health and abundance in the coming year; among them is walking with luggage in New Year.
If to look out the window you see several neighbors with their luggage this is not about a trip, but one of the rituals practiced in several Latin American countries like Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela and mainly in Peru, extended to other countries.
It is about walking with the luggage after the 12 chimes to attract new trips in the year ahead, whether for holidays, business plans or other desires consisting of traveling.
This ritual consists of doing several activities involving a suitcase, gather all the suitcases you have in home and do this ritual in a family game. Run with the suitcase, climb on a chair with a suitcase, take a tour around the house dragging a suitcase or take bags to the front door on New Years Eve.
Whether it be traditions, myths, cabalistic rites or any other belief, it is well if you’re a lover of travel, traveler dreamer or an optimistic entrepreneur.
While certainly this ritual is directed to the travelers or those seeking to do it again the next year, there are other practices that accompany New Year’s Eve traditions, which are worth mentioning.
In the first destination is Argentina, where wearing new and pink underwear is practiced to attract love. Flying to Brazil, where on the contrary, they do not look for love but wear white clothes to ward off evil spirits.
Upon landing in Chile, you may find that they eat lenses at midnight to have work and money all the year. Also, do not worry if someone starts cleaning when giving the happy New Year, sweep the house from the inside out, is the ritual to remove bad energy.
Arriving to Ecuador as a destination where you can teach make a ragdoll to ignite, and thus burn all the bad things of the old year to welcome the new year.
The journey does not end here, in El Salvador are used to break an egg into a glass of water and leave it overnight in the window, outdoors. Morning the figure revealed by the egg will bring fortune in the following year.
At midnight, in different countries like Guatemala, twelve cents are thrown at the door of the house with the back to the street to attract money. In Spain, 12 grapes are eaten to attract prosperity, and Venezuela, yellow underwear for success and money is used.
Good attitudes and energy will attract good things for your life, whether real or imaginary can grant the psychologically positive factor that you need. Whatever be your next destinations or traditions, you should welcome the New Year in the way you want.