In British folklore, the first-foot, also known in Manx Gaelic as quaaltagh or qualtagh,'s the first person to cross the threshold of a home on New Year's Day and a bringer of good fortune for the coming year. Although it's acceptable in many places for the first-footer to be a resident of the house, they mustn't be in the house at the stroke of midnight in order to first-foot (thus going out of the house after midnight and then coming back in to the same house isn't considered to be first-footi… (More on First-foot)