birthday traditions
England
English Birthday Traditions
tokens are baked into your cake to determine your fortune.
your friends will give you the "bump" which is when they lift you in the air by your hands and feet. one for each year for luck.
you have a cake which is used to bake items into to determine your life's fortune. depending on what you get, you'll have good luck or not.
whenever they lift the birthday boy/girl in the air, they do it up to three times and on the third they call it luck for "the old man's coconut".
birthday cards originated in England over 100 years ago!
location: England