Party customs around the world

Around the world there are many cultures and their party customs are very different and
weird for us. These parties are to celebrate a birthday, seasons, holidays and other simple
traditions.
SEASONS

Holi Festival, India

In India each year welcome spring in a special
way: "Holi" is the festival of colors and one of the
most important festivals in the country. Not only
celebrate the change from winter to spring, but
also, according to Hinduism, the victory of good
over evil - and do so with much color. During this
celebration, people painted and throwing colored powders
Gulai.

called

HOLYDAYS
Czech Republic
On Easter Monday, men go from house to
house slightly flogging women with braided
willow branch called 'pomlzka', it seems,
to imbue fertility.

Sweden
This Swedish custom consists of building a
straw goat of 13 meters which symbolizes the
Christmas spirit and then burn it.

Ethiopia
Here they celebrate Christmas in January.
That day people, makes fast and go to
church at 4 a.m wearing a white robe.

BIRTHDAYS
Canada: nose grease
On the Atlantic side of Canada, birthday boys and girls are
sometimes ambushed and their noses are greased, usually
with butter, to ward off bad luck.

Ireland: birthday bumps

The birthday child is surrounded by classmates, and
after a chorus of happy birthday to you, four other
children seize the child's arms and legs. Then the child
is thrown up into the air and back down again as many
times as their age in years plus one for extra good
luck.

Another version in India practiced usually among boys is

to hold the arms and legs of the birthday boy, and kick
him in the buttocks with or without shoes. This can be
done gently, or in a manner which causes pain
depending on the level of frustration the kicker has on
the kicked. The belief is that all anger and bitter feelings
which the kickers have on the kicked are vented and
forgotten on the birthday of the kicked.

Holland - crown years

Special year birthdays such as 5, 10, 15, 20, 21 are
called "crown" years. The birthday child receives an
especially large gift on a crown year birthday. The
family also decorates the birthday child's chair at the
dining room table with seasonal flowers or paper
streamers, paper flowers and balloons.

TRADITIONS
Finland: Race of wives
In competition man must carry his wife for a distance of 253
meters that includes a pool and several obstacles and
incentives, winning the world title haul wife and with it, the
woman's weight in beer.

England: Cheese-Rolling and Wake

The celebration takes place on the last
Monday of May at Cooper Hill, from which
a cheese of about 4 kilograms is released,
so that competitors run down the hill behind
him. The first person to grab the cheese
and reach the goal is the one who wins the
cheese.