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For money - Suck on seven pomegranate seeds on New Year's eve and keep them in your purse or wallet throughout the year.
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For money - For your New Year's Eve dinner, make sure to include some lentils. They're traditionally considered a sign of prosperity.
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For money - Decorate your table with sprigs of wheat and you're sure to have a prosperous year!
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For money - Decorate your house with yellow flowers.
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For money - Carry a banknote in your shoe during New Year's Eve.
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For money - If what you wish for the year ahead is money and prosperity, wear yellow clothes on New Year's Eve!
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For money - Don't spend New Year's Eve without any cash in your wallet!
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To find love - Leave a rose quartz inside a glass of water with coarse salt overnight. The next day, rinse it with water and let it sit under the sun for at least an hour. Bring your gem with you on New Year's Eve and then leave it in your purse or on your bedside table throughout the year.
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To find love - Write down the name of the person you love on a piece of paper seven times and keep it in your left shoe. At midnight on 31 December, stomp your foot seven times, repeating his/her name every time.
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To find love - Put the petals from seven orange blossoms next to some drops of your favorite perfume and a spoonful of honey. Mix them all into two liters of boiling water and transfer it to a glass recipient and let it cool down. Then add the petals of seven red roses and pour the liquid all over your body before showering while you wish for true love. Then shower as usual.
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To find love - The first person you hug to wish Happy New Year should be someone you love.
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To find love - Wear new lingerie during New Year's Eve, preferably pink or red.
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For health - On the morning of December 31, gather a bunch of eucalyptus, lemon balm, and mint leaves. Wash them and boil the leaves in two liters of water and then strain the liquid. Wash your body with the infused water, as you wish for health in the year ahead.
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For health - If you want good health in 2018, wear green clothes to your New Year's Eve party.
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To change jobs - At midnight, stand on a step, chair or any other elevated object with your right foot as you visualize your professional growth.
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To change jobs - On January 1, write your full name on a piece of white paper. Fold it and put it inside a new glass, then add a spoonful of sugar or honey. Fill the glass with water and let it sit in a high place for a week. Once you get the new job, wash yourself with the glass's water and throw the glass away.
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To keep the bad energies away - Before sunset on December 31, draw a circle on the ground with chalk, then step inside the circle and use a broom to swipe from the inside of the circle to the outside, as if you were brushing away all your problems.
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To keep the bad energy away - On New Year's Eve, boil two liters of water with common rue, rosemary, and basil. Wash yourself with that water before showering so as to keep the bad energy away.
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To keep the bad energy away - Sweep away all the dust in your house. Rub sea salt on all door frames and spray Holy water on all four corners of the house.
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To keep the bad energy away - No broken objects should be kept in the house.
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To keep the bad energy away - On New Year's Eve, jump three times while holding a champagne glass but without dropping any of it. Then throw the drink behind your back at once without looking back to symbolize all the bad things you're leaving behind.
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To keep the bad energy away - At the beach, after the clock hits midnight, jump over seven waves and make a wish for each one of them. When you're finished, walk out of the sea backwards slowly, so you're always facing the sea.
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To lose weight - Chop an onion into four equal parts and bury three of them. The fourth piece should be broken up into rings and each of them represents one kilo. Separate the number of rings corresponding to the number of kilos you wish to lose and boil them in 500 ml of water. Use that stock to water the place where you buried the remaining pieces three times.
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To lose weight - Grab a potato and make a hole for each kilo you want to shed. Put a bean seed inside one of the holes and bury the potato in your garden.
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To travel - During the first hours of the new year, grab a suitcase and walk around the house with it.
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To attract good luck - Eat pork instead of turkey on New Year's Eve dinner, because pigs move forward as they eat while turkeys move backwards.
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To attract good luck - Eat 12 grapes for each time the clock ticks and make a wish for each.
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To attract good luck - Leave the doors and windows open and the lights on so that the energy can flow through your home, and it'll attract good luck.
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For money - Suck on seven pomegranate seeds on New Year's eve and keep them in your purse or wallet throughout the year.
© iStock
1 / 29 Fotos
For money - For your New Year's Eve dinner, make sure to include some lentils. They're traditionally considered a sign of prosperity.
© iStock
2 / 29 Fotos
For money - Decorate your table with sprigs of wheat and you're sure to have a prosperous year!
© iStock
3 / 29 Fotos
For money - Decorate your house with yellow flowers.
© iStock
4 / 29 Fotos
For money - Carry a banknote in your shoe during New Year's Eve.
© iStock
5 / 29 Fotos
For money - If what you wish for the year ahead is money and prosperity, wear yellow clothes on New Year's Eve!
© iStock
6 / 29 Fotos
For money - Don't spend New Year's Eve without any cash in your wallet!
© iStock
7 / 29 Fotos
To find love - Leave a rose quartz inside a glass of water with coarse salt overnight. The next day, rinse it with water and let it sit under the sun for at least an hour. Bring your gem with you on New Year's Eve and then leave it in your purse or on your bedside table throughout the year.
© iStock
8 / 29 Fotos
To find love - Write down the name of the person you love on a piece of paper seven times and keep it in your left shoe. At midnight on 31 December, stomp your foot seven times, repeating his/her name every time.
© iStock
9 / 29 Fotos
To find love - Put the petals from seven orange blossoms next to some drops of your favorite perfume and a spoonful of honey. Mix them all into two liters of boiling water and transfer it to a glass recipient and let it cool down. Then add the petals of seven red roses and pour the liquid all over your body before showering while you wish for true love. Then shower as usual.
© iStock
10 / 29 Fotos
To find love - The first person you hug to wish Happy New Year should be someone you love.
© iStock
11 / 29 Fotos
To find love - Wear new lingerie during New Year's Eve, preferably pink or red.
© iStock
12 / 29 Fotos
For health - On the morning of December 31, gather a bunch of eucalyptus, lemon balm, and mint leaves. Wash them and boil the leaves in two liters of water and then strain the liquid. Wash your body with the infused water, as you wish for health in the year ahead.
© iStock
13 / 29 Fotos
For health - If you want good health in 2018, wear green clothes to your New Year's Eve party.
© iStock
14 / 29 Fotos
To change jobs - At midnight, stand on a step, chair or any other elevated object with your right foot as you visualize your professional growth.
© iStock
15 / 29 Fotos
To change jobs - On January 1, write your full name on a piece of white paper. Fold it and put it inside a new glass, then add a spoonful of sugar or honey. Fill the glass with water and let it sit in a high place for a week. Once you get the new job, wash yourself with the glass's water and throw the glass away.
© iStock
16 / 29 Fotos
To keep the bad energies away - Before sunset on December 31, draw a circle on the ground with chalk, then step inside the circle and use a broom to swipe from the inside of the circle to the outside, as if you were brushing away all your problems.
© iStock
17 / 29 Fotos
To keep the bad energy away - On New Year's Eve, boil two liters of water with common rue, rosemary, and basil. Wash yourself with that water before showering so as to keep the bad energy away.
© iStock
18 / 29 Fotos
To keep the bad energy away - Sweep away all the dust in your house. Rub sea salt on all door frames and spray Holy water on all four corners of the house.
© iStock
19 / 29 Fotos
To keep the bad energy away - No broken objects should be kept in the house.
© iStock
20 / 29 Fotos
To keep the bad energy away - On New Year's Eve, jump three times while holding a champagne glass but without dropping any of it. Then throw the drink behind your back at once without looking back to symbolize all the bad things you're leaving behind.
© iStock
21 / 29 Fotos
To keep the bad energy away - At the beach, after the clock hits midnight, jump over seven waves and make a wish for each one of them. When you're finished, walk out of the sea backwards slowly, so you're always facing the sea.
© iStock
22 / 29 Fotos
To lose weight - Chop an onion into four equal parts and bury three of them. The fourth piece should be broken up into rings and each of them represents one kilo. Separate the number of rings corresponding to the number of kilos you wish to lose and boil them in 500 ml of water. Use that stock to water the place where you buried the remaining pieces three times.
© iStock
23 / 29 Fotos
To lose weight - Grab a potato and make a hole for each kilo you want to shed. Put a bean seed inside one of the holes and bury the potato in your garden.
© iStock
24 / 29 Fotos
To travel - During the first hours of the new year, grab a suitcase and walk around the house with it.
© iStock
25 / 29 Fotos
To attract good luck - Eat pork instead of turkey on New Year's Eve dinner, because pigs move forward as they eat while turkeys move backwards.
© iStock
26 / 29 Fotos
To attract good luck - Eat 12 grapes for each time the clock ticks and make a wish for each.
© iStock
27 / 29 Fotos
To attract good luck - Leave the doors and windows open and the lights on so that the energy can flow through your home, and it'll attract good luck.
© iStock
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New Year's superstitions and traditions for a lucky 2019
These are the things you should do so that your wishes for 2019 come true!
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What do you have in mind for 2019? Will you find the love of your life? Finally get your dream job? Maybe you're just hoping for a little extra cash. Whatever you want from this next year, here are a few small tips and tricks on how you can achieve it.
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