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Christmas and Christmas Lore

Name: Christmas and Christmas Lore
Author: Thomas G. Crippen

Thomas G. Crippen

Read by TriciaG, Julie Burks, Jane Bennett, Maeve, John, Lynda Marie Neilson, KevinS, Jaimiechurch95, BettyB, Garth Burton, Chris Bloom, Ruth Logrono and Lynette Caulkins · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Preface and Introduction (4:13)
Origin of Christmas (13:41)
Coincident Festivals (5:23)
Names of Christmas (3:07)
Use of Evergreens (3:44)
Holly and Ivy (8:16)
Laurel, Rosemary, Fir, etc. (4:55)
Mistletoe (10:53)
Placing and Removing Evergreens (5:18)
Christmas Ghosts (5:20)
Christmas Tales (8:19)
Christmas Music - The Waits (3:45)
Old Christmas Hymns (10:39)
Christmas Carols (6:53)
Origin of Carols (13:39)
The Oldest English Carols (11:45)
Legendary, Mystical, and Modern Carols (15:47)
Use of Carols (10:27)
Church Observances - Advent (4:47)
Church Observances - Christmas Bells (4:49)
Church Observances - Midnight Mass (6:23)
Nativity Plays (9:27)
The Praesepio (7:23)
Cradle-Rocking: The Posada, etc. (6:53)
The Children's Christmas (8:01)
Puritan Hostility to Christmas (14:13)
Mumming (6:26)
Hodening, Schimmel, etc. (4:23)
Wassailing (8:33)
Christmas Eve (7:41)
The Yule Log (10:51)
Christmas Candles (4:47)
The Christmas Feast (20:57)
The Boar's Head (7:03)
Christmas Sports (7:19)
Masking (3:38)
The Lord of Misrule (11:51)
Yule-Firth: ''Unthrifty Folk'' (3:04)
Christmas Gifts - Santa Claus, etc. (10:18)
The Christmas Sheaf (2:20)
The Christmas Tree (9:14)
The Christmas Ship (3:29)
Christmas Boxes (6:15)
Christmas Cards, etc. (4:53)
Family Reunions - The Children's Day (4:02)
Miscellaneous Christmas Superstitions, etc. (11:30)
Yule-tide in Thule (7:02)
Subsidiary Festivals (14:15)
New Year's Eve - Hagmena (12:53)
Old Christmas Eve: Wassailing Trees (6:41)
Epiphany (9:52)
Twelfth Night (9:03)
Feast of Fools, or of The Ass (6:39)
Plough Monday, etc. (3:27)
Candlemas (12:42)
Epilogue (4:34)