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Yavin4

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2. I wonder if Winter Solstice festivals were a reaction to the winter season

Reply to MarvinGardens (Reply #1)

Fri Nov 23, 2018, 01:16 AM

Nov 2018

Because of the snow and cold, you wouldn't see your neighbors for months, and to help them, you give them gifts right at the start of Winter to help them through it.

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Gifts in the song "Twelve days of Christmas" are highly impractical and probably illegal [View all] Yavin4 Nov 2018 OP

And since when did Christmas have 12 days? MarvinGardens Nov 2018 #1

I wonder if Winter Solstice festivals were a reaction to the winter season Yavin4 Nov 2018 #2

Winter Solstice is the longest night of the year, which in Northern latitudes is really saying a lot Hekate Nov 2018 #6

For centuries, actually jmowreader Nov 2018 #5

If you can afford all that stuff, plus the marching band and dancers marylandblue Nov 2018 #3

But these are gifts Yavin4 Nov 2018 #4

Sounds like some parties I went to in the 1970s PJMcK Nov 2018 #7

Why do we give fruitcakes as gifts? marylandblue Nov 2018 #10

The original fruitcakes were probably tastier. They were designed for winter storage & eating... Hekate Nov 2018 #13

Well if someone gives me a well-preserved 200-year old fruitcake marylandblue Nov 2018 #14

I know a song about that..... OnDoutside Nov 2018 #8

''it is highly probable that it originated from a children's memory and forfeit game.'' Donkees Nov 2018 #9

If you take the song literally... targetpractice Nov 2018 #11

In addition to all that... skypilot Nov 2018 #12