In Poland during Advent, ___ is poured on water, and fortunes are told from the shapes that emerge.
In Czechia, unmarried women predict their love lives at Christmas by tossing a ___ over their shoulders. If the ___ lands pointing toward the front door, they will be married soon.
Traditional Japanese Christmas cake is usually made with sponge, whipped cream, and ___.
Greenland’s Christmas delicacy is kiviak, which is when a ___ is wrapped in seal skin, buried for several months, and then eaten once decomposed.
In India, in the absence of fir trees or pine trees, ___ are decorated instead.
In the Marshall Islands, people divide into teams and hold ___ competitions on Christmas Day.
In Ethiopia, most people call the holiday Ganna, after a ___ played only once a year, on Christmas afternoon.
Syrian children receive gifts from one of the wise men’s ___, purported to be the youngest, who fell down exhausted at the end of the journey to Bethlehem.
There are 12 courses in the traditional Ukrainian Christmas Eve supper, each of them dedicated to one of ___.
In South Africa every December, locals feast on a seasonal delicacy: deep-fried ___.
Germans made the very first artificial Christmas trees, using dyed ___ to look like needles of a pine or fir tree.
Children in Brazil believe Papai Noel enters via the front door, and travels via ___ rather than a reindeer-drawn sleigh.
The national flower of Venezuela is the Christmas _____.
In the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, residents build public Christmas trees out of _____ to honor fishermen lost at sea.
In Russia, Santa Claus is known as Grandfather Frost. He delivers presents to children with the help of his granddaughter, the ___.
Plum ___ is an English dish. Suet, flour, sugar, raisins, nuts, and spices are tied loosely in cloth and boiled until the ingredients are “plum.”
In southern France, some people burn a ___ in their homes from Christmas Eve until New Year’s Day to ensure good luck for the next year’s harvest.
During the warm and sunny Australian Christmas season, beach time and outdoor ___ are common.
Austrian children live in fear of Krampus, a Christmas devil who's said to beat naughty children with ___.
Contrary to popular belief, the tradition of hiding a _____ in your Christmas tree did not originate in Germany. It originated in the USA.
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