丹麦：杯盘碎片送朋友 Cups and bowls of debris to send to friends 杯盘碎片送朋友
Danish people in New Year's Eve, each and every household will usually break the glass fragments collected, to be secretly sent to the dead of night, when a friend's house door. New Year's Day morning, if the heap of debris in front of someone's more, it shows someone's friend of more must be very lucky New Year.
丹麦人在元旦前夜，家家户户都要将平时打碎的杯盘碎片收集起来，待夜深人静时偷偷地送至朋友家的门前。元旦的早晨，如果谁家门前堆放的碎片越多，则说明他家的朋友越多，新年一定很幸运。
法国：喝光余酒交好运
Finished off the fifth liquor luck 喝光余酒交好运
Before the arrival of the French in the New Year, individual must bring home all the liquor I drunk, so many people drunk. In their view, the New Year if the house there is still wine, the new year will pay doom.
法国人在新年到来之前，各家一定要把家中的余酒全部喝光，以致许多人喝得酩酊大醉。他们认为，新年时如果家中还有剩余的酒，新的一年定交厄运。
印度：感时伤逝抱头哭
In India, some regions, people not only did not celebrate the New Year, but cry. Exclaimed perishable, and is said to be short-lived life.
印度的一些地区，新年时人们不但不庆贺，反而抱头痛哭。据说是感叹岁月易逝及人生的短暂。