For the time between the years there were already special stories in pre-Christian times.
One of the old winter customs revolves around white clothing.
Many people use the time between Christmas and Epiphany on January 6 to reflect.
You review the old year and, gladly accompanied by many good resolutions, look to the future.
If you follow an old superstition, you should also not do laundry between the years.
Because like sewing, mucking up or spinning, washing was frowned upon in rural areas in the past.
In particular, all linen washing.
For the days after the winter solstice, there were already corresponding stories and customs in pre-Christian times.
Do not wash clothes on New Year's Eve: custom during the rough nights
It was said at the time that if the laundry was hung up at New Year's Eve, evil spirits could use it as a shroud for the New Year.
In order to avert such a misfortune and not to attract the evil in the first place, according to custom, washing white laundry in particular was forbidden on the so-called rough nights.
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Superstitious?
An old custom says that washing between the years brings bad luck - especially white laundry.
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When are the rough nights?
For Catholics, the rough nights begin on the night of the winter solstice on December 21 and end after the New Year, as reported by
Deutschlandfunk
in a contribution commemorating the customs.
Protestants, on the other hand, “rather count the nights between Christmas Eve and Epiphany.”
The stories thus originate from the particularly gloomy and cold winter days.
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Old custom: New Year's house cleaning should have a liberating effect
There used to be another tradition in some rural regions: those who wanted to protect themselves from demons cleaned up thoroughly before New Year's Eve, as the German Press Agency describes on the subject.
According to popular belief, evil spirits loved disorder and avoided clean houses.
Cleaning the house should therefore have a liberating effect and create space for something new.
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