Bizarre Christmas Traditions In Italy they have no Christmas...

Bizarre Christmas Traditions


In Italy they have no Christmas trees, instead they decorate small
wooden pyramids with fruit.

In Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, it is customary for the
streets to be blocked off on Christmas eve so that the people can
roller-skate to church.

An artificial spider and web are often included in the decorations
on Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider web found on Christmas
morning is believed to bring good luck.

It is a British Christmas tradition that a wish made while mixing
the Christmas pudding will come true only if the ingredients are
stirred in a clockwise direction.

A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was the head of a
pig prepared with mustard.

Sending red Christmas cards to anyone in Japan constitutes bad
etiquette, since funeral notices there are customarily printed in
red.

In Norway on Christmas Eve, all the brooms in the house are hidden
because long ago it was believed that witches and mischievous
spirits came out on Christmas Eve and would steal their brooms for
riding.

Christmas Present?


A man's wife has an artificial leg. Shortly before Christmas, he
buys her a new prosthetic and hides it in the closet.
Unfortunately, she finds it and confronts him with the artificial
limb.

"This wouldn't, by any chance, be my Christmas present, would it?"
she asks.

"No, of course not." responds her husband. "It's just a stocking
stuffer."