Christmas in Ritual and Tradition: Christian and Pagan |
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adoration angels animals apples Baumkultus Bethlehem Birth blessed Boy Bishop Burne and Jackson cakes called Candlemas candles carols Catholic celebration Celtic century ceremony Chambers CHAPTER charm Christ Child Christian Christmas customs Christmas Day Christmas Eve Christmas poetry Christmas-tree Church connected crib dance December 25 drama dressed drink Dyer E. K. Chambers early England English Epiphany Feast of Fools Feilberg fire first-foot Folk-Lore Frazer German gifts girls given Golden Bough heathen Holy human hymn Ibid Kalends Kallikantzaroi King Latin lighted London Lord Magi manger Mannhardt Martinmas mediaeval Midnight Mass modern morning mummers Nativity Nicholas night Noël origin pagan Perchta play popular practices probably Reinsberg-Düringsfeld religion religious rites Roman round sacramental sacred sacrifice saint season shepherds Shropshire singing solemn sometimes song Souls spirit Stephen's Day straw sung survival sweet Teutonic thee things Thou tradition tree Tyrol verses Year's Day Yule Yule log