J. Theodore Bent
III
CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS AND
BELIEFS
- CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS
- The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ
- Folk-lore of Christmas Tide
- Hunting the Wren
- The Presepio
- Hodening in Kent
- Origin of the Christmas Tree
- Origin of the Christmas Card
- The Yule Clog
- Come bring with a Noise
- Shoe or Stocking
- Jule-Nissen
- "Lame Needles" in Eubœa
- "Who Rides behind the Bells?"
- Guests at Yule
SOME sayes, that ever 'gainst that Season comes
Wherein our Saviours Birth is celebrated,
The Bird of Dawning singeth all night long:
And then (they say) no Spirit can walke abroad,
The nights are wholesome, then no Planets strike,