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January Hogmanay
The Scots wird Hogmanay comes fae a dialect wird yaised in the North o France tae mean a gift for New Year's Eve. The French wad gang aboot cryin 'Hoguinan' tae get a gift, and in an auld Scots religious buik, Scotch Presbyterian Eloquence, we can read that this custom wis cairried on seivinteenth century in Scotland wi shouts o 'Hogmane'. Jist a generation or twa syne, ye micht hae heard bairns gaen roon the doors on the 31st o December or on the first o Januar, cryin something sic as
First-fuiters maunna gang empty-haundit. Ye maun tak a wee present wi ye. It micht be something symbolic, like a lump o coal or a pourie saut tae bring prosperity tae yer hosts in the year tae come. 
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