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You need to keep well away from the Banshee's Yaps...........danger!!
You need to keep well away from the Banshee's Yaps...........danger!!
New Years traditions and/or folklore
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Every year on New Years Day my parents call me....one right after the other like they plan this. They ask "Honey, did you have your black eyed peas, hog jowl, and collard greens????" Knowing I am feeling nauseated even thinking about it and will say NOOOOOOOOOO of course not!!! LOL but they sure do have theirs!!!
New Year's meal was always pork, sauerkraut & mashed potatoes.
My father used to tell me I was the Banshee.... lol...
The only thing we really did was to have a family meal and to turn over the silver, like at a new moon.
Ohhh and no washing of laundry today.
But the meal was always light something simple, like cold meat and chips with salad, or a favourite stew, all prepared ready the previous day except the chips.
So little or no work on New Years day, chill out day.
Jena.
The only thing we really did was to have a family meal and to turn over the silver, like at a new moon.
Ohhh and no washing of laundry today.
But the meal was always light something simple, like cold meat and chips with salad, or a favourite stew, all prepared ready the previous day except the chips.
So little or no work on New Years day, chill out day.
Jena.
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Pork & sauerkraut, blackeyed peas, and everything in the house has to be clean for New Year's Day. Also, you have to burn last year's calendar as kindling for the first New Year fire.
When we lived in NE PA, people made a racket at midnight--go out on their porches and fire guns, bang on pots and pans, set off fireworks. One night we came home from a NYE party to find the whole neighborhood full of smoke. I thought someone's house was on fire, but no, it was just a lot of fireworks. Important safety tip: The bullets fired from guns, even straight up into the air, do eventually come down real fast. Often into your roof, or your neighbor's roof. It's not a happy surprise. Shotguns are better New Year's luck than rifles.
When we lived in NE PA, people made a racket at midnight--go out on their porches and fire guns, bang on pots and pans, set off fireworks. One night we came home from a NYE party to find the whole neighborhood full of smoke. I thought someone's house was on fire, but no, it was just a lot of fireworks. Important safety tip: The bullets fired from guns, even straight up into the air, do eventually come down real fast. Often into your roof, or your neighbor's roof. It's not a happy surprise. Shotguns are better New Year's luck than rifles.
Why no laundry?
My mother always made corned beef and cabbage and blackeyed peas. I thought they were disgusting and I still do, but she would make us eat just one - for good luck - so I would have to have a whole cup of milk, shove it in, and guzzle away the nasty taste!
I'm going to have to call her today and ask her why in anyone's name she would force ONE blackeyed pea on me!
We're having... CHICKEN today! With mashed potatoes, corn and salad.
No disgusting blackeyed peas allowed.
Happy New Year!
My mother always made corned beef and cabbage and blackeyed peas. I thought they were disgusting and I still do, but she would make us eat just one - for good luck - so I would have to have a whole cup of milk, shove it in, and guzzle away the nasty taste!
I'm going to have to call her today and ask her why in anyone's name she would force ONE blackeyed pea on me!
We're having... CHICKEN today! With mashed potatoes, corn and salad.
No disgusting blackeyed peas allowed.
Happy New Year!
Witamy, Adrian!!!
That's about the only Polish I know...
My ancestors are from Czestochowa.
Blackeyed Peas are a southern thing.
We get Finnan Haddie up here...no thanks, gonna skip that.
Corned beef and cabbage. I want Galumpki now, darn it...
The Dutch eat Donuts.
The Asians eat rice.
I read something about not breaking spaghetti when you eat it on New Years for the luck...I dunno.
The Banshee is supposed to proclaim doom to whomever hears it. Like a member of your family dying.
The shee (sidhe in the correct spelling) is from the old name of the nature spirits/faeries/old Gods in Celtic mythology.
That's about the only Polish I know...
My ancestors are from Czestochowa.
Blackeyed Peas are a southern thing.
We get Finnan Haddie up here...no thanks, gonna skip that.
Corned beef and cabbage. I want Galumpki now, darn it...
The Dutch eat Donuts.
The Asians eat rice.
I read something about not breaking spaghetti when you eat it on New Years for the luck...I dunno.
The Banshee is supposed to proclaim doom to whomever hears it. Like a member of your family dying.
The shee (sidhe in the correct spelling) is from the old name of the nature spirits/faeries/old Gods in Celtic mythology.
In Irish legend, a banshee wails around a house if someone in the house is about to die. There are particular families who are believed to have banshees attached to them, and whose cries herald the death of a member of that family. Traditionally, when a citizen of an Irish village died, a woman would sing a lament (in Irish: caoineadh, [ˈki¢°nʲə] or [ˈki¢°nʲu¢°], "caoin" meaning "to weep, to wail") at their funeral. These women singers are sometimes referred to as "keeners" and the best keeners would be in much demand. Legend has it that, for five great Gaelic families: the O'Gradys, the O'Neills, the O'Briens, the O'Connors, and the Kavanaghs, the lament would be sung by a fairy woman; having foresight, she would sing the lament when a family member died, even if the person had died far away and news of their death had not yet come, so that the wailing of the banshee was the first warning the household had of the death.
I don't remember hearing anything about the Sidhe appearing on New Years, though...hmmm.
No sweeping, or cleaning of any sort on New Year's because it sweeps away all the luck. That's a Wiccan thing too.
The shooting is to keep evil spirits away...
This is a neat link:
http://www.chiff.com/home_life/holiday/new-year-traditions.htm
I don't remember hearing anything about the Sidhe appearing on New Years, though...hmmm.
No sweeping, or cleaning of any sort on New Year's because it sweeps away all the luck. That's a Wiccan thing too.
The shooting is to keep evil spirits away...
This is a neat link:
http://www.chiff.com/home_life/holiday/new-year-traditions.htm
Wish I hadn't read this thread now....today I have done lots of laundry and even more cleaning.......but I have not put any rubbish in the outside bins, as that is also considered bad luck, throwing your good luck away on New Years Day.....
But am still going to be positive for 2009 and make my own luck.......
But am still going to be positive for 2009 and make my own luck.......
I must be the bad luck magnet, because my plan for today is to get caught up on TONS of laundry.
I even went and bought more fabric softener yesterday.
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