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Newspaper
Hope Star
Location
Hope, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1975
Page
19
Four billion Christmas cards are exchanged annually and the post office hires extra staff. The custom began in England in the early 1800s with Louis Prang popularizing cards in America around 1875. Prang’s color lithography set high standards, but cheaper European cards later challenged him.
The piece traces Befana from Italian legend to Christmas Eve gift folklore, noting the Three Kings missing her and her wandering to seek the Christ Child. It compares Baboushka in Russia and mentions Robert Louis Stevenson gifting his birthday to Annie Ide, plus an English holly tradition for beehives at Christmas.
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