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The celebration of New Year's in Brazil is one of the biggest in the whole country and as a multicultural nation it offers a mix of religious traditions, customs and superstitions. During the night of New Year's eve people dress in white clothes as a way to wish for peace for the following year, and many head to the beaches to send flowers and offerings into the ocean as well as to jump the very first seven waves after midnight, guaranteeing they will have luck, after all, it's a way to honour the sea goddess Iemanjá. The whole ritual of the New Year passage is completed by a grand firework show that gets bigger and better year after year.