TRADITION OF

OLD AND NEW

YEAR IN ECUADOR
 BEATING AND BONFIRE

• One of the most common cabal is the

beating that the old year or puppet
chosen to burn at the stake receives.
 CHARITY AND WIDOWS

• With the puppet also come requests for

'charity for the old man'. In the generally
suburban neighborhoods, some children
and young people will take to the streets
many hours before the burning to ask for
alms from passers-by and drivers before
saying goodbye to the year.
 GRAPES AND CLOCK

• Another cabal that has taken root in

Ecuadorians is the consumption of grapes,
twelve specifically, one for each month of
the coming year, accompanied by the
twelve chimes and making a wish with
each one.
 YELLOW AND RED

• there is a very particular way that some

call fortune. The use of yellow underwear
to welcome the new year is a cabal that
has won many followers.
• While to attract love there is red
underwear.