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Christmas and Christmas Lore

by Thomas G. CRIPPEN (1841 - 1930)

Use of Evergreens

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

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Listen next episodes of Christmas and Christmas Lore:
Candlemas , Christmas Boxes , Christmas Candles , Christmas Cards, etc. , Christmas Carols , Christmas Eve , Christmas Ghosts , Christmas Gifts - Santa Claus, etc. , Christmas Music - The Waits , Christmas Sports , Christmas Tales , Church Observances - Advent , Church Observances - Christmas Bells , Church Observances - Midnight Mass , Cradle-Rocking: The Posada, etc. , Epilogue , Epiphany , Family Reunions - The Children's Day , Feast of Fools, or of The Ass , Hodening, Schimmel, etc. , Holly and Ivy , Laurel, Rosemary, Fir, etc. , Legendary, Mystical, and Modern Carols , Masking , Miscellaneous Christmas Superstitions, etc. , Mistletoe , Mumming , Nativity Plays , New Year's Eve - Hagmena , Old Christmas Eve: Wassailing Trees , Old Christmas Hymns , Origin of Carols , Placing and Removing Evergreens , Plough Monday, etc. , Puritan Hostility to Christmas , Subsidiary Festivals , The Boar's Head , The Children's Christmas , The Christmas Feast , The Christmas Sheaf , The Christmas Ship , The Christmas Tree , The Lord of Misrule , The Oldest English Carols , The Praesepio , The Yule Log , Twelfth Night , Use of Carols , Wassailing , Yule-Firth: ''Unthrifty Folk'' , Yule-tide in Thule