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by Donna Bor d
The use of greenery at Christmas to
gleck our holiday halls is a custom dating back
ta pagan practices of centuries ago.
Evergreen boughs and berries were or-
iginally used to brightdn up the home during
the otherwise glooniy winter season.
The Romans decorated their homes and
temples with boughs and garlands of flowers
during the winter feast, 'and they believed that
if they exchanged green branches during this
feast they would receive good fortune for the
remainder of the year.
The Use of'bolly in North American
homes was introduced .by English settlers. Re-
cently, plants with thick waxy -leaves such as
laurels, rododendrons and boxwood have added
to the decoration of Canadian homes during
the happiest holiday the year.
In England, garlands were hung outside
.inns as an expression of festivity, hospitality
and good fellowship.
It is British tradition to place a sprig
of holly in each beehive during the holidays.
This custom was adapted from a legend which
claimed that when Christ was born the bees
sang a song in his boner and to thia day they
are still hununing
In some EurOpean countries it is -cus-
tomary for a quarreling couple to settle their
differences beneath the branch of a holly tree.
• In Austria a large wreath is hung from
the ceiling in the parlour or largest room. The
Austrians believe that Sylvester, an ancient
and ugly man with a flaxen beard and a wreath.
of mistletoe on his head, lurks in a dark corn-
er of the ron..which the wreath has been
hung. Wheneve.sOmeone passes beneaththe
wreath, Sylvester jumps out and gives them
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rough' kisses and a hug.
At Midnight, Sylvester it; driven from
the house, symbolizing the end of the old year.
An ancient custom in Czechoslovakia, ,
Poland and parts of Germany is the practice
of urging the blossoms of the cherry tree to
bloom for Christmas. At the beginning of Ad-
vent, a branch is cut from the trend
in a container of water in the kite t is a
sign of good fortune if the branch blossoms on
Christmas Eve, and the maid who cut it and
cared for it is sure to find a husband withix
the year, the tradition goes.
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