Christmas

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Christmas log More ancient Vikings brought this rite in England. At Christmas they cut down a huge tree, and all year it lay - dried up. And only at the next Christmas he was brought into the house, and it was burning in the hearth for a long time. If the faded, not burned to ashes, the owners were expecting trouble.

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Christmas socks. From Victorian England linked the custom to put gifts in the Christmas stocking. While telling a story that "Father Christmas" traveled through the air and enter the house through the chimney. Going into one of the houses, he dropped some gold coins in a sock, which hung over the fireplace to dry. Since then, on Christmas Eve at the fireplace began to hang out "socks and stockings in the hope that there is a fall." And now, on Christmas Eve children hang on the fireplace or the bed Christmas Stocking to Santa filled it with gifts.

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Christmas cards. The first Christmas cards were printed in 1843 in London by Queen Victoria. The key characters for the Christmas cards artists - printers selected motifs related to ancient rites and customs.

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Plum-porridzh Christmas was a special porridge Plum-porridzh, cooked in meat broth, it also added bread crumbs, raisins, almonds, prunes and honey and serve very hot. Pudding cooked in large copper kettles in the weeks before Christmas the whole family. In the preparation of each member of the family to make a wish. The pudding was placed 4 items: coins, a thimble, buttons and rings. Later, when the pudding is eaten every item found in the pudding has its value. The coin means wealth in the new year, buttons - bachelor life, thimble meant for unmarried girls life ring - marriage (marriage).

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Advent Wreath Four weeks before Christmas religious people bring home a special wreath - "Advent Wreath". Unlike simple wall Christmas wreath, they are placed on this table and is fixed on it four candles are lit every Sunday, but not simultaneously, but in succession - first one, then two and so on.

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Meals. Traditional Christmas meals in England are roast turkey with potatoes, stuffed with sweet cake, the traditional Christmas pudding and Christmas fruit cake.

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