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Each year in December when the days were short and the nights were long they
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would worship their pagan gods by tying apples and other gifts onto the branches
of a tree.
The Germans did something similar, but they used a fir tree which you know as a
Christmas Tree. To the pagans, fir trees were also a sign that winter would end
and warmth of spring would once more return to the earth so they would
decorate the trees with lots of different trinkets, masks, pray and hold a party
around it. When these people accepted Christianity, they continued with this
pagan ritual but renamed it, and so it became part of the Christmas celebrations.
The Germans invented another story which has been passed down right up until
this day. The story was that on Christmas Eve -- that's the night they claim was
the night before Prophet Jesus was born -- his mother, Lady Mary, and the
angels fly over the countryside, so, they place a candle in their windows to guide
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would worship their pagan gods by tying apples and other gifts onto the branches
of a tree.
The Germans did something similar, but they used a fir tree which you know as a
Christmas Tree. To the pagans, fir trees were also a sign that winter would end
and warmth of spring would once more return to the earth so they would
decorate the trees with lots of different trinkets, masks, pray and hold a party
around it. When these people accepted Christianity, they continued with this
pagan ritual but renamed it, and so it became part of the Christmas celebrations.
The Germans invented another story which has been passed down right up until
this day. The story was that on Christmas Eve -- that's the night they claim was
the night before Prophet Jesus was born -- his mother, Lady Mary, and the
angels fly over the countryside, so, they place a candle in their windows to guide