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New Year celebration in Slovakia is incomplete without the rather overdone and outdated yet somehow queer and funny New Year customs and traditions.
New Year Traditions in Slovakia have become a mandatory part of the New Year celebration adding more fun and rhythm to the New Year festival. Have a glance on some of the interesting New Year Traditions in Slovakia. Masks and Parades are very common New Years Events of Slovakia. While noisily singing, dancing and clapping the costumed characters visit from one house to the other, where they're treated with foods and drinks. In many parts of Slovakia, performers walk around in a procession carrying wooden swords wound in a closed chain. This custom reminds of the ancient sword dance symbolizing the eternal cycle of life.
Slovakians enjoy using a variety of noisemakers on New Year holiday. Favorite among them is a wooden ratchet or rehtacka . These come in many sizes, with loud clattering sounds. Firecrackers are lit to welcome in the New Year and drive out evil spirits with loud noises and sparkling, flashing pyrotechnics.
A long practiced and well-known New Year tradition among the various New Year Traditions in Slovakia is Lead Pouring or Das Bleigieen . A small amount of lead is melted in a tablespoon by candle flame and then pounavy into a bowl of water. The shape the lead takes into after hardening is interpreted to pnavyict the ensuing year. For instance, if the lead forms a ball it means luck will roll ones way. The shape of an anchor means help in need but a cross signifies impending death.
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