Strange Christmas Traditions.

Something about Christmas.

Christmas is a Christian tradition. So, don't think that everybody celebrates it at everywhere. In places such as China, Arabian countries or India you will not see Christmas lights at the streets, adorns in the houses or presents under the fir. However, Christians in different parts of the world have some odd traditions that now we're going to see:

INDIA

There are 25 million Christians in India. And they have changed the fir by a banana tree! They also use the banana tree leaves to decorate their houses and streets. Look at the photo below:

CZECH REPUBLIC

On Christmas day, single women have a singular tradition in Czech Republic. They throw a shoe at the door house. If the shoe toe points to the door, it means that they are going to find their true love very soon.

 FINLAND

On Christmas eve, Finns use to visit the tombs and graves of their ancestors, lighting candles in memory of them. Is like our All Saints day (1st of November), but colder and with snow (Look at the photo below)

SEA MONSTERS

From ancient times sea people have spoken about big oceanic monsters. In this report I want to tell you about them. Let's start:

The kraken:

It is an enormous squid which appears in many sailor tales. In accordance with some descriptions, the kraken can hold and eat up a medium sized ship. It has got eight tentacles and a terrifying beak for crushing the hulls of the vessels.

Of course, it does not exist. The most simillar animal is the giant squid, a cephalopod which lives into deep waters (see the photo below)

The Megalodon:

It is a prehistoric shark which dissapeared two million years ago. In comparison with actual sharks, it was very big (see the photograph below)

At the bottom of the picture you can see a human diver. Above him, a white shark (the biggest actual shark in the world) Then, a medium size megalodon. And finally, at the top of the image, we have got an example of the biggest megalodon ever found.

The image that you have seen is a reconstruction, beacuse there isn't any megalodon skeleton (they had no bones, but cartilages) Paleontologists compared a megalodon fang with a white shark fang, and then they suposed its size thinking about the relation between both elements.

White shark and megalodon fangs

Although many people say that megalodon still exists, the real fact is that we have no evidences of its existence. But who knows. Maybe into the deep waters...