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Omens Dim
Yule Spirit
“Merry” Christmas? Not always, according to some ancient beliefs once associated with the day.
Take, for instance, the old belief that cattle and other stable animals were given the power of speech on Christmas Eve.
Any person who heard the animals speak would die within a year, so superstition said.
Somber omens of death were read into still other Yuletide legends. When the Yule log burned, bystanders were told to watch the shadows on the
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