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As the pagan Yule celebrations were replaced by the feast of Christmas, the ^ festival season extended from Christmas Eve to the Feast of the Epiphany. This meant that the Yule log had plenty of time, big as it used to be, to flame and flicker before the last of it had smoldered to ashes.
In the agricultural economy of the pre-Civil War South here in our own country, the Yule log was the means of procuring a true holiday for the field hands.
There was on many plantations an accepted unwritten rule that the slaves would not have to work outdoors so long as the Yule log was alight. The workers would take advantage of this custom,
Sing hey! Sing hey! For Christmas Day; Twin mistletoe and holly. For friendship glows In winter snows, And so let’s all be jolly!
— Anonymous
Surprisingly
enough, the British
Victorians were the
folks who introduced
the custom of
kissing under the
mistletoe at Christmastime.
Who says
they were straitlaced
?
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