Christmas and Christmas Lore
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171
1923
English
- Preface and Introduction
- Origin of Christmas
- Coincident Festivals
- Names of Christmas
- Use of Evergreens
- Holly and Ivy
- Laurel, Rosemary, Fir, etc.
- Mistletoe
- Placing and Removing Evergreens
- Christmas Ghosts
- Christmas Tales
- Christmas Music - The Waits
- Old Christmas Hymns
- Christmas Carols
- Origin of Carols
- The Oldest English Carols
- Legendary, Mystical, and Modern Carols
- Use of Carols
- Church Observances - Advent
- Church Observances - Christmas Bells
- Church Observances - Midnight Mass
- Nativity Plays
- The Praesepio
- Cradle-Rocking: The Posada, etc.
- The Children's Christmas
- Puritan Hostility to Christmas
- Mumming
- Hodening, Schimmel, etc.
- Wassailing
- Christmas Eve
- The Yule Log
- Christmas Candles
- The Christmas Feast
- The Boar's Head
- Christmas Sports
- Masking
- The Lord of Misrule
- Yule-Firth: ''Unthrifty Folk''
- Christmas Gifts - Santa Claus, etc.
- The Christmas Sheaf
- The Christmas Tree
- The Christmas Ship
- Christmas Boxes
- Christmas Cards, etc.
- Family Reunions - The Children's Day
- Miscellaneous Christmas Superstitions, etc.
- Yule-tide in Thule
- Subsidiary Festivals
- New Year's Eve - Hagmena
- Old Christmas Eve: Wassailing Trees
- Epiphany
- Twelfth Night
- Feast of Fools, or of The Ass
- Plough Monday, etc.
- Candlemas
- Epilogue
For above forty years I have been a diligent collector of history, tradition, legend, custom, or folklore, whether from familiar or unfamiliar sources, relating to the festival of the Holy Nativity. Moreover, I have gathered copiously from scarce pamphlets of the 17th and 18th centuries, from old chapbooks, newspaper paragraphs, and magazine articles old and new, and from contact with rustics in several counties. The fruits of my gathering are briefly summarized in the following pages, in the hope that they may conduce to that "joy and pious mirth" wherewith we ought, all of us, to commemorate the best and greatest Gift of God to man. - Summary by from the Preface
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