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2. 10 old-school Christmas traditions that are no longer practiced

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   Christmas is a blended event that mixes traditions from pagan winter festivals, the Christian commemoration of the birth of Christ, and the legend of Santa Claus. ... Holiday cards usually contain ...

3. 30 Christmas Traditions From Around the World - AOL

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   It played a three-hour commercial-free video loop of flaming wood, accompanied by holiday music, to serve as a “Christmas card to our viewers,” according to a history of the “Yule Log ...

4. Yule - Wikipedia

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   The modern English noun Yule descends from Old English ġēol, earlier geoh(h)ol, geh(h)ol, and geóla, sometimes plural. [1] The Old English ġēol or ġēohol and ġēola or ġēoli indicate the 12-day festival of "Yule" (later: "Christmastide"), the latter indicating the month of "Yule", whereby ǣrra ġēola referred to the period before the Yule festival (December) and æftera ġēola ...

5. Heathen holidays - Wikipedia

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   In the modern pagan movement of Heathenry there are a number of holidays celebrated by different groups and individuals. The most widely observed are based on ancient Germanic practices described in historical accounts or folk practices; however, some adherents also incorporate innovations from the 20th and 21st centuries.

6. Yule goat - Wikipedia

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   A Yule goat on a Christmas tree. 'Old Christmas', riding a yule goat; 1836 illustration by Robert Seymour. The Yule goat is a Scandinavian and Northern European Yule and Christmas symbol and tradition. Its origin is from Germanic paganism and has existed in many variants during Scandinavian history. Modern representations of the Yule goat are ...

7. Christmas - Wikipedia

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   By 1860, fourteen states including several from New England had adopted Christmas as a legal holiday. [86] In 1875, Louis Prang introduced the Christmas card to Americans. He has been called the "father of the American Christmas card". [87] On June 28, 1870, Christmas was formally declared a United States federal holiday. [88]