10 Things about Christmas

Thanks to Woodlands Junior School for their great site about Christmas. So as a thank you for following this Blog I will give you 10 facts about Christmas:

  1. Father Christmas’ reindeer’s are Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner/Donder, Blitzen, and Rudolph. 8 of the names come from Clement C. Moore’s Book ‘A Visit From St. Nicholas’ and I am sure you know which song that last one is from.
  2. There have only been 7 white Christmases in England in the 20th Century. Definition of a white Christmas in England is that a snowflake falls on the roof of the London Weather Centre in the 24 hours of 25 December.
  3. An old wives tale says that bread baked on Christmas Eve will never go mouldy.
  4. The Christmas Turkey was imported by the Jesuits and in some dialects is called ‘Jesuite’
  5. Christmas pudding was first made as a kind of thick soup with raisin and wine in it
  6. In the 19th Century Christmas Cake was eaten on Christmas Eve it was considered unlucky to eat Christmas Cake before dawn on Christmas Eve
  7. It is considered unlucky to cut a mince pie with a knife
  8. Mince pies should only be eaten on Christmas Eve and the Twelfth Night. A mince pie should be eat each day of the twelve days of Christmas to bring good luck
  9. 25 December was first celebrated as the birth of Christ in 440AD
  10. The Queen’s Christmas Speech was first televised in 1957

I hope you enjoyed this little trip through Christmas traditions and with you Seasons Greetings.

Andrew Peel

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