How did kissing at midnight on New Year's Eve become a tradition?
ime is running out to figure out where you’ll be at the moment the new year begins — and whom you’ll be with. According to some superstitions, German and English folklore
for popularizing the idea that whom you’re with on New Year’s Eve will predict how the new year will goAnd these days, there’s a good chance that if you’re with anyone at all, you’ll plan to give or receive a kiss at the stroke of midnight. The exact origins of that custom’s popularity in the United States aren’t clear, but, like that superstition, it likely also has German origins. German immigrants’ New Year’s Eve parties in the mid-19th century would have helped spread the idea of ringing in the year with a kiss, says to Alexis McCrossen, an expert on the holiday and author ofShe points out that one of the earliest recorded references to smooching at midnight on New Year’s Eve is in a Jan.
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