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WISHING EACH <vn EVERYONE A MERRY CHRISTMAS - AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
WELL-LOVED
LEGENDS GO
THE ROUNDS
Christmas is many things
to many people but regard
less of custom or country,
all Christmas celebrations
are surrounded by legends.
They vary from the relig
ious to the nonsensical and
seem endless in number.
One legend has it that
those who perish at mid
night on the Eve of Christ
mas will ascend to heaven;
another claims that eating
a dish composed of rice and
blackeyed peas, known as
Poor John, will guarantee
prosperity for the coming
year.
Tradition says that a
green Christmas portends a
white Easter and that when
Christmas falls on a Mon
day, the winter will be long
and cold but when it falls on
a Wednesday, there will be
a splendid summer and a
beautiful harvest.
Another legend says that
the cock was the first to an
nounce Christ’s birth and
that ever since, the rooster
crows all night long on the
eve of Christmas.
New work begun during
Christmas week will never
prosper, one tradition has
it . . . another cautions that
whatever is done on New
Year’s Day will be done the
whole year through, so pay
no bills!
An especially lovely leg
end is the one concerning
horses and barnyard ani
mals; because their fore
bears witnessed the nativ
ity it is believed that horses
kneel at midnight on Christ
mas Eve, while barnyard
animals have the gift of
speech.
The fact that there were
animals present in the man
ger on the night of the
Christ child’s birth is said
to be responsible for the
origin of the myth that ani-
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Carol Can Be
Tongue-Twister
“On the first day of
Christmas, my true love
sent to me a partridge in a
pear tree.”
So begins “The Twelve
Days of Christmas,” a tra
ditional and favorite song
of the holiday season. The
- ballad tells the story of the
gifts a lover sends to his
lady on each of the 12 days
from Christmas to Epiph
any.
The first gift, a partridge
in a pear tree, may have
been inspired by an old
drinking song, “A Pie sat on
a Pear Tree," say the editors
of The New Book of Knowl
edge.
As a ballad, “The Twelve
Days of Christmas" is an
example of the “number
chain formula” in folk
songs. As a carol, it is of
the type that marked the
change from formal hymns
in Latin to musical poems
in the vernacular of the
people.
The song can be sung in
a variety of ways. In Great
Britain and the United
States, it often becomes a
game song in which each
person, following a leader
in repetitions, must pay a
forfeit if he misses a line.
Sometimes the descriptions
of the gifts turn into mouth
defying tongue twisters!
rnals spoke on Christmas
Eve. Anglo-folklore gives
.credence to the belief that
cattle in Devon and Corn
^vall fell on their knees in
adoration and the bees sang
, in their hives.
Rosemary and Bay
Are Flowers of Yule
Rosemary and bay have
long been associated with
the story of Christmas.
' Legends say the Virgin
Mary rested by a rosemary
plant, and placed the Christ
I Child’s garments upon its
branches, whereupon the
white blossoms turned to a
lovely lavender to honor the
Child.
The bay tree with its
lance-like leaves and purple
berries, was said to have
sheltered the Family during
a thunderstorm; thus it
was believed that lightning
would not strike a bay tree.
Holly, Traditional
at Christmastime
Holly has long been con
sidered the most sacred of
Christmas greens; and the
red berries are said to repre
sent the blood of Jesus.
“Os all the trees that are
in the wood, only the holly
bears the crown!”
A display of holly was
long a sign of Christian
worship.
Folklore has it that holly
in the window will keep evil
spirits away from the
house, and holly at a maid
en’s bedside, on Christmas
Eve, will protect her from
goblins!
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