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Christmas Day was made a public holiday in 1958 [12] in Scotland, Boxing Day only in 1974. [13] The New Year's Eve festivity, Hogmanay, was by far the largest celebration in Scotland. The giftgiving, public holidays and feasting associated with mid-winter were traditionally held between 11 December and 6 January.
Hogmanay ( / ˈhɒɡməneɪ, ˌhɒɡməˈneɪ / HOG-mə-nay, -NAY, [2] Scots: [ˌhɔɡməˈneː] [3]) is the Scots word for the last day of the old year and is synonymous with the celebration of the New Year in the Scottish manner. It is normally followed by further celebration on the morning of New Year's Day (1 January) and, in some cases ...
Yule log. The Yule log, Yule clog, or Christmas block is a specially selected log burnt on a hearth as a winter tradition in regions of Europe, and subsequently North America. The origin of the folk custom is unclear. Like other traditions associated with Yule (such as the Yule boar ), the custom may ultimately derive from Proto-Indo-European ...
Christmas traditions. Children depicted pulling a Christmas cracker in a 19th-century English Christmas card. Christmas traditions include a variety of customs, religious practices, rituals, and folklore associated with the celebration of Christmas. Many of these traditions vary by country or region, while others are practiced virtually ...
Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. This is a list of Christmas and winter gift-bringer figures from around the world. The history of mythical or folkloric gift-bringing figures who appear in winter, often at or around the Christmas period, is complex, and in many countries the gift-bringer – and the gift-bringer's date of arrival – has changed over time as native customs have been ...
Stacker compiled a list of 10 Christmas traditions that are no longer widely observed using various sources. ... As the Scottish and Irish immigrated en masse to the United States, Halloween ...
1. The Holiday Season Doesn’t Start Until the Christmas Adverts Do. In some countries, the holiday season kicks off on advent Sunday and for many Americans, it begins as soon as the last slice ...
The Old New Year, or the Orthodox New Year, is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar. In the 20th and 21st centuries, the Old New Year falls on January 14 in the Gregorian calendar . This traditional dating of the New Year is sometimes commonly called "Orthodox" because it harks back to ...