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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1922
Page
12
A survey of Christmas legends from Bosnia India and Europe describes animals and birds venerating the day. Tales speak of sun bowing a starry stillness deer kneeling before the Great Spirit and robins with red breast linked to Christ's crucifixion.
A compact retelling of how Christmas stockings evolved from medieval tealy legends in Padua. It describes St. Nicholas and good deeds, knitted purses with coins, and how windows and chimneys framed the charitable gift. The piece links ancient practices to the modern stocking custom.
In pre prohibition days a southern parishioner celebrated Christmas with a solitary bottle of liquor. Returning home the bottle slipped from his arm and shattered on the curb. He regarded the spill with gentle sorrow and sighed that Christmas had come and gone.
Christmas on the isolated Icelandic island brings happiness as people keep ancient customs and songs. A favorite song reflects a simple philosophy of life about goodness, inner peace, and trust in God, ending with a note of joy and light.
The article notes no certain birth date for Christ, tracing December 25 as a church tradition begun in the fourth century. It cites Rome’s Philocalian calendar of 864 with earlier records, Augustine’s bringing to England in 508, and later adoption in Germany and Norway. It explains the date’s symbolic link to the Unconquered Sun and the winter solstice.
The piece recalls Dickens Christmas Carol with the Spirits of Past Present and Future guiding Scrooge toward kindness. It reflects on keeping Christmas in the heart year round and extends Tiny Tim’s blessing God bless us every one to all readers.
The passage describes inviting one or two people to Christmas dinner who would otherwise be alone. The act brings genuine pleasure to both host and guest, making the guests feel part of a true Christmas celebration rather than a charitable duty.
A tale explains Befana as the Italian good fairy who fills stockings on Twelfth Night. Unlike Santa, she does not descend the chimney and her stocking is kept in the child's room. The legend says the Magi sought her after Bethlehem, she missed them, and now Befana roams every Twelfth Night seeking them.
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