You may think birthdays mean only cakes, presents, and a joyful song of “Happy Birthday”. However, there are a variety of birthday celebrations. In the West, many birthday traditions come from an ancient belief that evil spirits showed up on a person’s birthday. To drive troublemaking spirits away, friends would visit each other on their birthdays. Today, people still get together for birthday parties. But around the world, birthdays are celebrated in many different ways.

　　In eastern Canada, children get their noses greased with butter on their birthdays. The butter is supposed to make children too slippery for bad luck to stick to them. Irish people lift birthday children upside down and bump them on the floor for every year of their age. Mexico also has a unique birthday tradition. A papier-mache animal is filled with candy and toys and hung from the ceiling. The blindfolded birthday child then tries to hit the animal with a stick until it bursts open.

　　Help :

　　Grease vt. 涂脂于

　　papier-mache n. 纸型

　　Think about :

　　How many ways of birthday celebrations are offered in the text ? what are they ?

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