Since the beginning of time every culture, religion, and race have had their own set beliefs, holidays, and superstitions. These can determine how you spend Christmas or what you eat for Thanksgiving and provides the world with diversity and insight on just how different everyone is. If you celebrate Christmas or not, whether your family makes turkey for Thanksgiving or a traditional family recipe passed down through generations, every single person’s holiday traditions are valid and deserve to be celebrated and talked about.

     Although there are many traditions globally, some are talked about more than others, so the goal is to illuminate and bring attention to those that are less popular, such as certain unorthodox traditions in different countries and places in the world. This tradition is likely to be one of the most unheard-of tradition unless you originate from around Norway. This Christmas Eve tradition from Norway surprisingly enough focuses on brooms and hiding them. 

     “Perhaps one of the most unorthodox Christmas Eve traditions can be found in Norway, where people hide their brooms. It’s a tradition that dates back centuries to when people believed that witches and evil spirits came out on Christmas Eve looking for brooms to ride on. To this day, many people still hide their brooms in the safest place in the house to stop them from being stolen,” According to 11 Weird and Wonderful Christmas Traditions from around the World.

      To some this custom may seem that it would belong during Halloween time. No matter how strange this tradition may seem, this is a perfect example of the variation of celebrations in today’s society.