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A filled Christmas stocking. A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve so that Saint Nicholas (or the related figures of Santa Claus and Father Christmas) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives. These small items are often referred ...
Hanging Christmas stockings is one of the oldest and most personal holiday traditions around. Most people decorate the tree or lay garland on the mantel , but rarely do houses ever have the same ...
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 table crackers are not uncommon and, in some parts of Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia, Christmas traditions include mummers. [19] [20] North American influences on Christmas are evident in the hanging of stockings on Christmas Eve, to be filled by Santa Claus.
According to TIME Magazine , 1931 was the first year that this special location displayed a Christmas tree, when a 20-ft.-tall balsam was put up on Christmas Eve by the construction workers who ...
The tradition of lighting a colossal Christmas tree at New York City’s Rockefeller Center dates back to 1931 when workers at the center pooled their money to buy a 20-foot balsam fir they ...
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