Cleansing Baths Bring Good Luck for the New Year
To drive away bad luck and bring good luck people will do baños de florecimiento, baths for flourishing, on New Years. These are cábalas, augeries, just like others people do such as wearing yellwo underwear and so on.
With the end of each year people hope to remember the good things and leave the bad ones behind so they can begin the New Year fresh. As a result, people are recurring more and more to naths for flourishing. People see them as a way to leave behind bad luck. For them you only need a few different things, both plant and mineral.
You need candles, flowers, water, incense, and some stones. All of these are sold in our ferias, our markets. There you can find everything you need to perform this ritual for the New Year.
People carry them out by themselves, although you can also work with someone who is an expert in this kind of bats. All of this is influenced by television which shows us what are the good cábalas, the most used ones, for these feasts. They also teach us what is the new fashion. Celebrities are the ones who promote these cábalas and make people want to use them for themselves.
In one way or another, if you think positively, you can drive away bad luck and bring good luck to you on the new year. That is why people perform the cábalas and rituals. They want good fortune and good luck. They want to receive the New Year with their right foot and with faith that it will be better than past years.