Each country has its own share of traditions, cultural practices, and
beliefs. How about on babies or children? What do countries have when it comes
to baby/child traditions or beliefs?
In Japan, the 3rd, 5th, and 7th birthdays of children are special.
During these special birthdays, Japanese children participate in the upcoming
Shichi-go-san Festival (meaning the "Seven-Five-Three" Festival),
celebrated annually on November 15. During this festival, children and their
families visit a shrine or other place of worship and will give thanks to God
for their health and strength, and ask to be blessed with continued well-being
in the future and a long life (this is due to the fact that a long time ago
children died before their 3rd, 5th or 7th birthdays). For this occasion, girls
and boys always dress in their finest clothes, which may be traditional kimonos
or also western-style clothing (source: coolest-kid-birthday-parties.com).
In the Philippines, children are carried over back and forth over the
casket of deceased relative so that they would not be visited/haunted by the
spirit of that relative.
In Russia, it is said that mothers typically do not show their baby to
anyone except the father, the midwife and other close relatives for forty days
after the baby is born.
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