A taste of New Year’s traditions

Welcome to the annual festival of magical thinking, otherwise known as New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.
If you were to ask someone if he or she were superstitious, most would probably answer with a firm, “No.” This is the 21st. century, after all. But there are whole professions rife with superstition, and we think nothing of it. Professional sports players often have rituals they follow before a game, or a favourite “lucky” glove, stick, ball or piece of cl