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We would like to wish all our friends and neighbors
in Cranbrook and district a
VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS
and a
HAPPY NEW YEAR
From:— DICK and JEAN BRADSHAW and FAMILY
R.R. No. 1,
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta
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This 'Christmas Quiz
See how well You. can score on the answers to questions
about Christmas and its custornsi Then check the answers:
1, Research says that Christ's birthday occurred .on:
,a) Decemher 25
b) an uncertain date
ci january 0
8, Sending Christmas cards is a custom that started in;
a) Germany
b) England
Q) the U.S..
3, Hanging mistletoe is a custom that begam
al in the 18th Century
bi in Scandinavia
c) among the ancient Druids
4. Decorating a Christmas tree has its origin in;
a), Germany
I» Czechoslovakia
0) Norway
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5. The first people to set up a decorated Christmas tree
in a public place were;
a) Portuguese
I» Flemish
) Americans
6. The custom of burning the Yule Log originated with:
a) the Vikings
b) the French
c ) the Slays
7. The meaning of the word -carol," as used in England
in the Middle Ages, was:
a) dancing
b) singing
ci dancing in a circle while singing
8, The use of the creche, or crib, as a Christmas symbol
was introduced by:
a the French.
b> the Italians
c) the Swedes
9, Exchanging gifts for Christmas was not practiced
until:
a) 800 A.D.
bl the latter part of 19th Century
c) about 200 years ago 7
10. The character of Santa Claus was first known as:
a) Father 'Christmas
b) St. Nicholas
c) Pere Noel
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Traditions
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Twelfth .Night is the pop-
ular English name for - the
Feast of the Epiphany,
which 'falls on January 6,
just 18 .days after Christ,
Inas, The word "Epiphany"
comes from a Greek word
meaning "appearance," us-
ually used in reference to
the appearance of .4 deity
in visible form,
The earliest reference to
the festival, according to
the editors of the EncYclo-
podia Americana, was in the
later years of the 2rid. Cen-
tury, when Clement of Alex-
andria, in Egypt, spoke of
certain, Christians 'obserV-
ing the 6th of January in
memory of the baptism of -
Jesus. The actual. date
seems to have been chosen
in order to rival some of the
popular pagan festivals of
that day.
By the beginning Of the
4th century., orthodox
Christians in the East were
observing the festival as a
triple celebration. It became
an all-inclusive feast, hon-
oring the birth and baptism
of Christ, and His first mir-
acle at Cana of Galilee.
Arrival of the Magi
In the West, however, the
particular commemoration
assigned to Epiphany was
the visit of the Magi. Dur-
ing the Middle Ages, the •
Epiphany festival was wide-
ly observed by the perform-
ance of miracle plays in the
churches about the Three
Kings or Magi. Particularly •
in England, the clay was
marked by dramatic pro-
ductions, though not neces-
sarily religious ones, and
this custom survived into
the Elizabethan • period.
Shakespeare took the popu-
lar
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name of Twelfth Night
for his play of that title,
which was written to be
performed on that date.
Since Epiphany concludes
the Yuletide. festivities, and
its date coincides with
many ancient pagan cus-
toms, it was often celebrat-
ed with strange ceremonies
in which those customs min-
gled with Christian rites.
Some of these old ceremo-
nies still exist in parts of
Europe, where fixed rituals
may have origins, often
with an overlay of magic.
that are lost in the past,
Up-Helly-Aa Is Norse
Still celebrated in the
Shetland Islands is an old
Viking ceremony known as•
"Up-Helly-Aa." The name
means "end of the holiday,"
indicating that the event
comes some time after
Christmas, actually at the
end of January.
The ceremony itself is
very dramatic, since it takes
place at night, by torch-
light, Men in the old wild
Viking costumes, complete
with high horned_ helmets,
tow a huge 30-foot Norse
longboat. through the town,
in a torchlight procession._
then the boat is set ablaze
on the beach.
Haxey Hood Game
Haxey is a place in Lin-
colnshire, where they still
play this famous old hood
game, on January 6. Its ori-
gins hark back to pagan
times, and th e, "hood" it-
self is thought to represent
the head of a
In the game, 13 men take
part, one called the "fool,"
another the "lord," and the
eleven. others, "boggins." A
two-team scrimmage takes
place, the object being for
each man to succeed in
placing a folded canvas
hood into a particular goal,
one after the other. The
very last hood, the 13th,
called -The mowy," has to
be fouelit towards the final
enal - un inn where there
drirkr- foe