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Christmas Day was made a public holiday in 1958 [12] in Scotland, Boxing Day only in 1974. [13] The New Year's Eve festivity, Hogmanay, was by far the largest celebration in Scotland. The giftgiving, public holidays and feasting associated with mid-winter were traditionally held between 11 December and 6 January. However, since the 1980s, the ...
Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. This is a list of Christmas and winter gift-bringer figures from around the world. The history of mythical or folkloric gift-bringing figures who appear in winter, often at or around the Christmas period, is complex, and in many countries the gift-bringer – and the gift-bringer's date of arrival – has changed over time as native customs have been ...
Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. A number of Midwinter or Christmas traditions in European folklore involve gift-bringers.Mostly involving the figure of a bearded old man, the traditions have mutually influenced one another, and have adopted aspects from Christian hagiography, even before the modern period.
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The sound of carols in the air, the scent of mulled wine spices and the spectacle of hundreds upon hundreds of lights and decorations make Christmas markets one of the highlights of the festive ...
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Gretna Green is a parish in the southern council area of Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, close to the town of Gretna, [1] on the Scottish side of the English-Scottish border. It is accessed from the A74(M) motorway. [1] Historically Gretna Green was on the Glasgow-Carlisle road, a significant early toll road between England and Scotland.
Hogmanay (/ ˈ h ɒ ɡ m ə n eɪ, ˌ h ɒ ɡ m ə ˈ n eɪ / HOG-mə-nay, - NAY, [2] Scots: [ˌhɔɡməˈneː] [3]) is the Scots word for the last day of the old year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner.