Hogmanay is a Scottish New Year's celebration that has it roots in Puritan tradition. To this day, Hogmanay is the main winter holiday and includes many Christmas-like features, such as gift giving.

The most important aspect of any Hogmanay celebration is cleansing for the new year. Cleansing includes paying off old debts, washing the home, and banishing thoughts of bad happenings from the previous year.

Other traditions include the banging of pots at midnight to ward off dark spirits, banishing stray dogs to keep evil at bay, and firstfooting - a tradition of visiting friends and relatives at midnight to bring them good cheer to start off the new year.