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—The Pembroke Journal, Thursday, December 21, 1967
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AMERICAN OIL COMPANY
Hagan, Georgia
Yule Greens
Set Scene
For Festivity
From the welcoming wreath
on the door to the Christmas
tree glowing with lights and
bedecked with packages, from
the cheery poinsettia plant on
the mantel or table to the sprig
of mistletoe with its promises
of kisses and laughter, greens
and plants set the scene for
holiday enjoyment.
Many of the greens now used
for Christmas decorations
once adorned pagan rites, and
were credited by the ancients
with certain mystical powers
and virtues.
Today, using greens has be
come holiday custom, regard
less of religious or symbolic
significance.
Mistletoe Magic
Ancient followers of the
Druid religion were the first to
regard mistletoe as a sacred
plant, say the editors of The
New Book of Knowledge. They
supposed it to have panacean
virtues in warding off every
thing from witches to disease.
Each year, about the time
Christmas is celebrated today,
there was a ceremonial rite in
which Druid priests, using a
golden sickle, cut the mistletoe
leaves from the “sacred oak”
and distributed them amongst
the people.
The Saxons also valued this
plant; they were the first to
call It mistletoe. To them, mis
tletoe symbolized everlasting
peace.
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Holly in Legend
In the legend and lore of
Christmas, holly has both a
merry and melancholy signi
ficance.
Fairies, so it is said, loved
the holly. They found its leaves
such a comforting shelter that
even after holly was cut from
the trees, they lingered about,
allowing themselves to be car
ried indoors, where they pro
tected the home from evil
spirits.
Later, Christian believers
saw the thorny leaves and
bright red berries of the holly
as symbols of the Crown of
Thorns and the sacrifice which
the Christ Child, grown to
manhood, made on Calvary.
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Symbolizing Victory
In legend, the laurel and the
bay have told the story of vic
tory and triumph since the
days of ancient Greece.
Ivy was the convivial green
of pagan holidays, and was
supposed to express the joy
ousness of Bacchus. The yew
and the Cyprus symbolize eter
nal life.
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