The Threshold Workings: New Year's Magic from Around the World   New Year's Eve isn't what you think it is.   Strip away the champagne and countdowns, and you're left with something far older and stranger: a night that exists outside of time. A seam in reality. The moment when one year dies and another hasn't yet been born.   Cultures across the entire globe recognized this night as dangerous and powerful in equal measure. From Japan to Persia, from Rome to the Pacific Island