Lucia Day Starts Christmas Season In Swedish Custom
Lucia Day begins the Christmas season in Sweden on December 13 honoring St Lucia. The festival features a queen and maidens in white robes, gift giving, coffee and rolls to patients, and parades with star decorated chariots. Participants perform scenes from Lapland and the Old West to folk and jazz music.
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Puritan Ban On Christmas Art And Festivities
Fragmentary notes recall that Puritans in England outlawed Christmas art and merrymaking in 1643. The Restoration revived customs, making Christmas observed in churches and for family gatherings, contrasting with earlier lavish feasts and boisterous merriment.
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England
More to Mistletoes Than You'd Think
A feature on mistletoe reveals its dual role in America. Birds distribute seeds causing tree damage while the plant fuels holiday romance and serves as winter food for several songbirds. Folklore warns that leftover leaves attract goblins after Candlemass Eve.
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America
Tennessee
Indestructible Mistletoe Threatens Christmas Trees in Australia
Australian foresters wage a drastic battle against parasitic mistletoe that virtually kills host trees. Flamethrowers and radioactive tracers from the U S atomic energy commission are used to curb the plant, a foe to Christmas greenery in woodlands.
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Australia
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
Calends and calendar rites in ancient Rome
The Calends marked the first day of each month when priests gathered the people to announce sacred days and festivals. Citizens checked fasti to note feasts in red. The text also references mistletoe’s effect on trees and a stray note about avalanche files.
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Rome
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