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These are a few ways that the people of Panama celebrate la navidad. A lot of their celebration occurs at midnight. People go out into the streets at midnight and start dancing and the children are kept awake until then to open presents. Usually gifts of children aren't placed in the tree until midnight. But before that, The Spirit of Christmas arrives on the 21st of December. What he does is he writes prayer requests on slips of paper and hopes they benefit others. Every time a request comes true, he thanks God for making his request a reality and burns the slip of paper.