hristmas
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in Mexico • Posadas- religious parade that takes
place for nine days before Christmas.
- children dress as Mary and Joseph and look of a place to stay.
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• Piñata - tradition that involves breaking a paper star shaped object full of sweets, mandarins, and small toys
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No quiero oro, ni quiero plata;
yo lo que quiero es romper la piñata.
in Italy • La Befana- a kind of old witch who
arrives on her broomstick during the night of January 5
- she fills the stockings with toys and sweets for the good children and with coal for the bad ones.
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in Holland • Sinterklaas - arrives in a steamboat
from Spain with a white horse and dozens of helpers.
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• on 6th of December- Children place their wooden shoes filled with carrots and hay by the fireplace for Sinterklaas’ horse.
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in America
• Christmas tree
- usually stands centrally in the home, decorated with ornaments, tinsel and lights, with an angel or a star at the top.
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Santa Claus
• is said to visit homes while children are sleeping during the night before Christmas morning.
• Christmas stockings are hung on the fireplace for him to fill with little gifts
• children to leave a glass of milk and a plate of Christmas cookies for Santa
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in Romania• Saint Nicholas- leaves sweets in the
shoes of good kids and a switch for bad kids
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• Christmas tree
• Carols (Steaua, Pluguşorul etc.)
• Moş Crăciun (Santa Claus)
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in Spain
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Merry Christmas to you all !
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