2.  Today, the family orders a feeding trough at a small stage in an outstanding part of a house. In Provence, children bring stones, branches and a moss to do(make) installation for a feeding trough. And also represent Sacred Family, other symbols of a history of Christmas, and people of a village: the mayor, the priest, police, the butcher, пекарь, the miller, the farmer. In steady - reproduction of a legendary feeding trough of Bethlehem, with волом and a donkey placed close to Jesus, both Mary and Joseph in the foreground welcoming visitors.

3. Gifts are given out on the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6th The children set out their shoes on the night before the Epiphany in anticipation of the coming of. Old woman who travels throughout Italy on a broom leaving gifts of toys, candies and fruit for the children. If they were bad, they would find their shoes filled with coal.

4.  There are various New Year traditions in Russia as the country celebrates an official and unofficial New Year. Earlier Russians used to celebrate it in September. But in 1699, Czar Peter the Great issued an order for the New Year to be celebrated on January 1st according to the Julian calendar. From 1918, Russians celebrated the New Year on 1st January according to the Gregorian calendar and again on 14th January which is 1st January according to the Julian calendar.

5. Halloween celebrations in England were popularised in the late twentieth century under the pressure of American cultural influence, including a stream of films and television programmes aimed at children and adolescents, and the discovery by retail experts of a marketing opportunity to fill the empty space before Christmas.