Holyday Traditions

[ickaimp]

Was talking to darthanne about regional traditions and realised I forgot to post about one of my favourite Southwestern ones:



... Johannes and I both grew up calling these 'Luminario', but it seems like most people know them as 'Luminaria'. Either or?

The traditional way to do these is to get a brown paper bag, fold the top edges down, fill the bottom with sand or gravel and put in a votive or tea candle. I've also seen small bricks with holes carved in them for the candle. They're usually seen on Christmas Eve, but with the electric kind coming out in recent years (such as these), they're seen more commonly throughout December.
Albuquerque especially does massive displays.
The electric ones are cool too, cause then the candle doesn't blow out. ^__^

The original conversation came about because we were talking about the Southern tradition of eating black-eyed peas on New Years.

Any other New Years traditions people do?

Comments

[theaino.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I've probably been to where you are then.

Yeah, there was semi-circle burned lawn about the size of a hula hoop next to the street. I don't think there was any permanent damage, but it was pretty amusing. Oh, look dear, the lawn is on fire.