Bizarre Xmas Traditions....

In Italy they have no Christmas trees, instead they
decorate small wooden pyramids with fruit.

In Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela, it is
customary for the streets to be blocked off on
Christmas eve so that the people can roller-skate to
church.   

An artificial spider and web are often included in the
decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees. A spider web
found on Christmas morning is believed to bring good
luck.

It is a British Christmas tradition that a wish made
while mixing the Christmas pudding will come true only
if the ingredients are stirred in a clockwise
direction.

A traditional Christmas dinner in early England was
the head of a pig prepared with mustard.

Sending red Christmas cards to anyone in Japan
constitutes bad etiquette, since funeral notices there
are customarily printed in red.

In Norway on Christmas Eve, all the brooms in the
house are hidden because long ago it was believed that
witches and mischievous spirits came out on Christmas
Eve and would steal their brooms for riding.