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Newspaper
Lordsburg Liberal
Location
Lordsburg, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1966
Page
5
A fragment describes picking dry fruitwood for the Yule log in England. It notes beliefs that burning logs protected families from witches, required clean hands to burn brightly, and warned of bad luck if the log refused to burn or if a squinting pet was present. The next Christmas morning the log was extinguished and saved ashes for the following year.
Viane Lesley, Rachel Sanchez, and Harriet Bishop, all Eastern New Mexico University students in Portales, are spending the holidays at home with their parents. Mrs. Claude Fuller visited Mr and Mrs Henry Fuller and Jimmy in Silver City during the weekend.
Ancient winter solstice traditions used branches of mistletoe and holly to festoon homes as the sun returned. Martin Luther is said to have introduced the first Christmas tree for his children, with earliest references appearing about fifty years after his death. A 1604 manuscript notes fir trees displayed in Strasbourg parlors with roses cut from colored paper and other ornaments.
Readers learn about a curious practice of placing expectant produce under fruit trees to induce yield. The column contrasts Christmas with its roots in Druids, Scandinavians, Romans and Egyptians and notes the varied folklore surrounding the holiday.
The article traces how Germans influenced Christmas tree traditions from 1561 Alsae ordinances limiting tree size to Moravians in Bethlehem 1747 and German immigrants in the mid 1800s. It notes Ft Dearborn 1804, a Harvard German professor in 1836, Williamsburg 1840, Prince Albert 1841, and a 1889 Daimler car speed of 11 mph.
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