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  1. Christmas Between Cultures: Tamales Meet Santa in Costa Rica

    Moving from one country to another and from one culture to another means a double set of traditions to consider. Accepting new customs doesn’t mean rejecting the old because there is always something from the past that we just don’t want to give [...]

    #ArtsAndCulture #ArtsAndCulture #Christmas #ChristmasHolidaysInCostaRica #ChristmasInCostaRica #ChristmasTraditions #CostaRica #Culture #Featured #News #Tamales

    ticotimes.net/2024/12/25/celeb

  2. 🎄 Why do we celebrate #Christmas on December 25th? The ongoing debate about its links to pagan festivals like #SolInvictus ☀️ and #Mithraism raises questions about early Church syncretism and the evolution of Christian identity. Here is an overview of the current historical facts of this debate:

    🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_

    #WeekendStories #ChristianCulture #ChristmasTraditions #MerryChristmas #histodons

  3. 🎄 Why do we celebrate #Christmas on December 25th? The ongoing debate about its links to pagan festivals like #SolInvictus ☀️ and #Mithraism raises questions about early Church syncretism and the evolution of Christian identity. Here is an overview of the current historical facts of this debate:

    🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_

    #WeekendStories #ChristianCulture #ChristmasTraditions #MerryChristmas #histodons

  4. 🎄 Why do we celebrate #Christmas on December 25th? The ongoing debate about its links to pagan festivals like #SolInvictus ☀️ and #Mithraism raises questions about early Church syncretism and the evolution of Christian identity. Here is an overview of the current historical facts of this debate:

    🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_

    #WeekendStories #ChristianCulture #ChristmasTraditions #MerryChristmas #histodons

  5. 🎄 Why do we celebrate #Christmas on December 25th? The ongoing debate about its links to pagan festivals like #SolInvictus ☀️ and #Mithraism raises questions about early Church syncretism and the evolution of Christian identity. Here is an overview of the current historical facts of this debate:

    🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_

    #WeekendStories #ChristianCulture #ChristmasTraditions #MerryChristmas #histodons

  6. 🌟 The #ThreeMagi: Unraveling the history and symbolism behind the iconic figures who visited the infant #Jesus. This post explores their Zoroastrian roots, misconceptions, and their cultural significance in Christian tradition:

    🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_

    #WeekendStories #ChristianCulture #ChristmasTraditions #MerryChristmas #Christmas #AncientTimes #histodons #Zoroastrianism

  7. The iconic image of #Jesus' birth in a stable may not reflect historical reality. Archaeological evidence suggests Jesus was likely born in a lower-level space within a family home or a cave, common in first-century Judea. Here is some further background information about the historical context:

    🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_

    #WeekendStories #ChristianCulture #Nativity #NativityScene #ChristmasTraditions #MerryChristmas #Christmas #histodons

  8. Starting tonight on BBC4, a return to magical children’s television from 1984. Forty years on, enjoy an adaptation of John Masefield’s The Box of Delights.

    bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p00x

    #TheBoxOfDelights #BBC4 #ChristmasTraditions #NeverGrowUp

  9. This is the first #ChristmasFilm of the 2024/5 season I actually enjoyed. If the viewer is not keen on coïncidence or serendipity, this #ChristmasMovie is not for you. My fave part was learning about different #ChristmasTraditions. I shall not look for this, but should watch again.

    Link to Great Movies:

    player.greatnetwork.com/produc

  10. A 'Lost' Christmas Custom of the North:

    "They haven't gone guising here for a long time," said the old folk of Cambo in 1922.

    "There was no 'guisering' at Christmas 1903," wrote Hastings Neville in Ford in his notes of that year.

    'Guising' (apparently derived from 'disguising', referring to the costumes and masks worn) was the local version of the Mummers Plays that exist elsewhere.

    In both Ford, in the far north of the county, and Cambo, 40 miles to the south, we have records of the old custom, which happened in the days leading up to Christmas. Both apparently involved the key character of a doctor, but in Ford, Revd Neville has preserved the entirety of the script, including 'King George', a young hero, Goliath, and a battle, and finishing with the rhyme:

    "Your bottles are full of whisky,
    Your barrels are full of beer,
    I wish you a Merry Christmas
    And a Happy New Year."

    Neville puts the dying of the custom down to the reduction of young people in the villages in an age of increased mechanisation and rural depopulation. But when I was growing up in Northumberland in the 1990s, 'guising' was what we called Trick or Treating at Halloween! Maybe it hasn't so much died as shifted.

    #FolkHistory #LocalHistory #Folklore #FolkCustoms #Traditions #Christmas #Midwinter #ChristmasTraditions #RuralTradition #History #Northumberland #Mummers

  11. A 'Lost' Christmas Custom of the North:

    "They haven't gone guising here for a long time," said the old folk of Cambo in 1922.

    "There was no 'guisering' at Christmas 1903," wrote Hastings Neville in Ford in his notes of that year.

    'Guising' (apparently derived from 'disguising', referring to the costumes and masks worn) was the local version of the Mummers Plays that exist elsewhere.

    In both Ford, in the far north of the county, and Cambo, 40 miles to the south, we have records of the old custom, which happened in the days leading up to Christmas. Both apparently involved the key character of a doctor, but in Ford, Revd Neville has preserved the entirety of the script, including 'King George', a young hero, Goliath, and a battle, and finishing with the rhyme:

    "Your bottles are full of whisky,
    Your barrels are full of beer,
    I wish you a Merry Christmas
    And a Happy New Year."

    Neville puts the dying of the custom down to the reduction of young people in the villages in an age of increased mechanisation and rural depopulation. But when I was growing up in Northumberland in the 1990s, 'guising' was what we called Trick or Treating at Halloween! Maybe it hasn't so much died as shifted.

    #FolkHistory #LocalHistory #Folklore #FolkCustoms #Traditions #Christmas #Midwinter #ChristmasTraditions #RuralTradition #History #Northumberland #Mummers

  12. A 'Lost' Christmas Custom of the North:

    "They haven't gone guising here for a long time," said the old folk of Cambo in 1922.

    "There was no 'guisering' at Christmas 1903," wrote Hastings Neville in Ford in his notes of that year.

    'Guising' (apparently derived from 'disguising', referring to the costumes and masks worn) was the local version of the Mummers Plays that exist elsewhere.

    In both Ford, in the far north of the county, and Cambo, 40 miles to the south, we have records of the old custom, which happened in the days leading up to Christmas. Both apparently involved the key character of a doctor, but in Ford, Revd Neville has preserved the entirety of the script, including 'King George', a young hero, Goliath, and a battle, and finishing with the rhyme:

    "Your bottles are full of whisky,
    Your barrels are full of beer,
    I wish you a Merry Christmas
    And a Happy New Year."

    Neville puts the dying of the custom down to the reduction of young people in the villages in an age of increased mechanisation and rural depopulation. But when I was growing up in Northumberland in the 1990s, 'guising' was what we called Trick or Treating at Halloween! Maybe it hasn't so much died as shifted.

    #FolkHistory #LocalHistory #Folklore #FolkCustoms #Traditions #Christmas #Midwinter #ChristmasTraditions #RuralTradition #History #Northumberland #Mummers

  13. A 'Lost' Christmas Custom of the North:

    "They haven't gone guising here for a long time," said the old folk of Cambo in 1922.

    "There was no 'guisering' at Christmas 1903," wrote Hastings Neville in Ford in his notes of that year.

    'Guising' (apparently derived from 'disguising', referring to the costumes and masks worn) was the local version of the Mummers Plays that exist elsewhere.

    In both Ford, in the far north of the county, and Cambo, 40 miles to the south, we have records of the old custom, which happened in the days leading up to Christmas. Both apparently involved the key character of a doctor, but in Ford, Revd Neville has preserved the entirety of the script, including 'King George', a young hero, Goliath, and a battle, and finishing with the rhyme:

    "Your bottles are full of whisky,
    Your barrels are full of beer,
    I wish you a Merry Christmas
    And a Happy New Year."

    Neville puts the dying of the custom down to the reduction of young people in the villages in an age of increased mechanisation and rural depopulation. But when I was growing up in Northumberland in the 1990s, 'guising' was what we called Trick or Treating at Halloween! Maybe it hasn't so much died as shifted.

    #FolkHistory #LocalHistory #Folklore #FolkCustoms #Traditions #Christmas #Midwinter #ChristmasTraditions #RuralTradition #History #Northumberland #Mummers

  14. A 'Lost' Christmas Custom of the North:

    "They haven't gone guising here for a long time," said the old folk of Cambo in 1922.

    "There was no 'guisering' at Christmas 1903," wrote Hastings Neville in Ford in his notes of that year.

    'Guising' (apparently derived from 'disguising', referring to the costumes and masks worn) was the local version of the Mummers Plays that exist elsewhere.

    In both Ford, in the far north of the county, and Cambo, 40 miles to the south, we have records of the old custom, which happened in the days leading up to Christmas. Both apparently involved the key character of a doctor, but in Ford, Revd Neville has preserved the entirety of the script, including 'King George', a young hero, Goliath, and a battle, and finishing with the rhyme:

    "Your bottles are full of whisky,
    Your barrels are full of beer,
    I wish you a Merry Christmas
    And a Happy New Year."

    Neville puts the dying of the custom down to the reduction of young people in the villages in an age of increased mechanisation and rural depopulation. But when I was growing up in Northumberland in the 1990s, 'guising' was what we called Trick or Treating at Halloween! Maybe it hasn't so much died as shifted.

    #FolkHistory #LocalHistory #Folklore #FolkCustoms #Traditions #Christmas #Midwinter #ChristmasTraditions #RuralTradition #History #Northumberland #Mummers

  15. My #family's #Christmas #crib. My parents owned the figurines, and my sister and I made the barn when we were in preschool. We also tried to make the three wise men at one point, but neither of us were very good with modeling clay.

    Our tradition is to leave #Jesus on top until #ChristmasDay, when we put him in the #manger.

    #ChristmasTraditions