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There was a curious tradition in the north of England, which is practically done away with in these days of lucifer mat

Even the vegetable world contributed to the wonders of Christmas, for was there not the famous Glastonbury Thorn which

It would indeed be singular if an event of such importance as the birth, as man, of the Son of God had not been special

Christmas Eve is especially the time for decorating houses and churches with evergreens, a custom which seems to have c

As these old customs are fast dying out, and should be chronicled, I must be pardoned if I give another and very simila

All the festivals of the Church are preceded by a vigil, or eve, and, considering the magnitude of the festival of Chri

The singing of carols is now confined to Christmas day; but it was not always so, appropriate carols being sung during

We take it for granted that in the old times, when Christ-tide was considered so great a festival as to be accorded a N

And this was the general feeling. Parliament might sit, as we learn by The Kingdome's Weekly Intelligencer, No. 152: Th

As soon as the Puritans became at all powerful, their iconoclastic zeal naturally attacked Christmas, and the Scotchmen

Time's Telescope (1824, p. 297) notes that in Cumberland, and in all the great towns in the north of England, about a w

Until Christmas eve there is nothing remarkable about this Novena of Christ-tide, excepting a curious charitable custom

Only one is noted in the reign of Edward VI., that of 1551, of which Holinshed writes, Wherefore, as well to remove fon

We have seen in the account of historic Christ-tides how a Lord of Misrule was nominated to amuse Edward VI., and with

This is rather sorry stuff; but then in purely rural places, untouched by that great civiliser, the railroad, a little

Bishop Jeremy Taylor very appropriately said that the first Christmas carol was sung by the angels at the Nativity of o

New Year's eve is variously kept--by some in harmless mirth, by others in religious exercises. Many churches in England

Before the advent of Christmas the Bellman, or Watchman, left at each house a copy of verses ostensibly breathing good-