Chileans are a people who enjoy traditions and customs that are passed from generation to generation, and there is no time like the New Year to put them into practice.
Here we tell you about some of the New Year's cabals that year after year are performed throughout Chile with the purpose of making the coming year prosperous:
- Eat 2 grapes, one for each month, and make a wish at the time of eating each one.
Eating lentils is believed to help prosperity and abundance.
- Walk around the block with a suitcase for a year full of travels. Another variation of these cabals for the New Year is to climb on a chair with a suitcase.
- Fill the salt shakers in the house so that abundance never fails.
- Place a ring in the champagne glass with which the toast is made to be asked to marry you.
- Place a garlic in the wallet so that there is no lack of money. This garlic should be changed the following year.
- Place a bill in your shoe to have a year of abundance in economic matters.
- Use yellow underwear to attract good luck. For those who are looking for love, it is recommended to use red clothes.
- To embrace the new year with someone of the opposite sex if you want to find love in this new year.
- Write on a piece of paper all your wishes for the next year and burn it after midnight.
- Open the windows to let all the bad things go away. Wear white clothes to keep diseases away.