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Christmas and Christmas Lore
by Thomas G. CRIPPEN (1841 - 1930)The Christmas Feast
For above forty years I have been a diligent collector of history, tradition, legend, custom, or folklore, whether from familiar or unfamiliar sources, relating to the festival of the Holy Nativity. Moreover, I have gathered copiously from scarce pamphlets of the 17th and 18th centuries, from old chapbooks, newspaper paragraphs, and magazine articles old and new, and from contact with rustics in several counties. The fruits of my gathering are briefly summarized in the following pages, in the hope that they may conduce to that "joy and pious mirth" wherewith we ought, all of us, to commemorate the best and greatest Gift of God to man. - Summary by from the Preface
Listen next episodes of Christmas and Christmas Lore:
Candlemas , Christmas Boxes , Christmas Cards, etc. , Christmas Gifts - Santa Claus, etc. , Christmas Sports , Epilogue , Epiphany , Family Reunions - The Children's Day , Feast of Fools, or of The Ass , Masking , Miscellaneous Christmas Superstitions, etc. , New Year's Eve - Hagmena , Old Christmas Eve: Wassailing Trees , Plough Monday, etc. , Subsidiary Festivals , The Boar's Head , The Christmas Sheaf , The Christmas Ship , The Christmas Tree , The Lord of Misrule , Twelfth Night , Yule-Firth: ''Unthrifty Folk'' , Yule-tide in Thule