First-foot

In Scottish, Northern English, and Manx folklore, the first-foot (Scottish Gaelic: ciad-chuairt, Manx: quaaltagh/qualtagh) is the first person to enter the home of a household on New Year's Day and is seen as a bringer of good fortune for the coming year.[1][2] Similar practices are also found in Greek, Vietnamese, and Georgian new year traditions.

  1. ^ Simpson, Jacqueline; Steve Roud (2000). "New Year". A Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-210019-X.
  2. ^ Page, Michael; Robert Ingpen (1987). Encyclopedia of Things that Never Were. New York: Viking Press. p. 167. ISBN 0-670-81607-8.