Q -- Kutia sounds delicious! I'm thinking the ceilings must not have been very high, though. Otherwise, whoever had the job of cleaning the ceiling the next day might not think that many grains sticking up there would be particularly good luck...

I don't know where my mother picked this up from, but she'd always told me that it was bad luck to keep your Christmas decorations up past January 6th. And we'd always tut at those houses we'd see beside the highway with Santa and Rudolf still on top come March.