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PRIOR TO OPENING PRESENTS ON CHRISTMAS DAY A YULE LOG IS FIRST
BURNED. THIS IS FOR GOOD LUCK.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; NEW BALTIMORE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 25 Christmas Also see F642, below. BELIEF -- Good luck |
Date learned: 12-25-1964
IF YOU WAKE UP WHILE SANTA CLAUS IS IN THE HOUSE, HE WILL BLOW DUST
IN YOUR EYES AND YOU'LL BE BLIND.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 25 Christmas Also see F642, below. BELIEF -- Means of Causing or Avoiding Illness |
Date learned: 11-19-1987
ON CHRISTMAS EVE, A SPECIAL DINNER IS SERVED. YOU MUST
EAT NINE DIFFERENT FOODS, NONE OF WHICH COULD BE MEAT.
SOME OF THIS FOOD MUST BE LEFT OVERNIGHT FOR THE CHRIST
CHILD.
Submitter comment: THIS IS THOUGHT TO BE AN ITALIAN CUSTOM.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | 686 Ninths / Nine CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 24 Christmas Eve Food Drink -- Typical menus for the various meals For meal hours, see F574.84. Special or festive meals |
Dorothy's mom taught her how to crochet Christmas ornaments.
First, they crochet the ornaments and then put them into sugar
water to hold a desired shape. Then they put a ribbon on
the top of the ornament and hang it on the Christmas Tree.
The process of crocheting take hours to complete a beautiful
ornament.
Submitter comment: The material that is crocheted is thin yarn.
Where learned: CANADA ; ONTARIO
On Christmas Eve day, it is good luck if the
first person to enter your house is a man and
bad luck if it is a woman.
Where learned: KANSAS ; Manhattan
James Callow Keyword(s): FIRST FOOTING ; SEXISM
Date learned: 00001920S
Italian Christmas Tradition
Eldest cousin buys the youngest cousin a gift.
Paternal grandfather buys the newest member a
welcome gift to the family.
Submitter comment:
The newest member is a new addition to the family.
This includes a new baby or someone who married into
the family.
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 24 Christmas Eve |
Date learned: 00001972CA
Revolving Christmas Eve Dinner
Every year dinner changes to another female member's
house. This has to be an eight-course meal.
Date learned: 00001972CA
Christmas Day Dinner
Paternal grandmother always has this dinner.
She serves the same foods every year.
Date learned: 00001972CA
Christmas Presents
Open smallest gift on Christmas Eve. The rest are
opened on Christmas Day.
Date learned: 00001972CA
It is the custom in Christian families to put
one lighted candle in the window on Christmas Eve
to symbolize that Mary and Joseph would be welcome
in your home if they were searching
for a place to stay like they were so long ago.
Where learned: NEW JERSEY ; Penns Grove
James Callow Keyword(s): HOSPITALITY
Date learned: 00001980S
POLISH SAINT STEPHEN'S DAY
ON DECEMBER 26, SAINT STEPHEN'S DAY, MY GRANDMOTHER AND HER
STEP-SISTERS WOULD GO TO THE HOMES OF NEIGHBORS AND RELATIVES WITH
A BAG OF WALNUTS. THE SISTERS WOULD THROW THE WALNUTS AT THE FEET
OF THEIR HOSTS. THIS WAS IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE MARTYRDOM OF SAINT
STEPHEN, WHO DIED BY STONING. OCCASIONALLY THE PEOPLE WHO HAD
WALNUTS THROWN AT THEIR FEET WOULD GIVE THE CHILDREN MONEY.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | Favorites CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 26 Boxing Day St. Stephen's Day |
Date learned: 00001920S
EVERY YEAR MY FAMILY GATHERS AT MY HOUSE FOR A CHRISTMAS DAY
CELEBRATION. I'VE STARTED TO CALL THIS GATHERING THE "FOOL'S
CHRISTMAS" BECAUSE OF THE STRANGE ACTIVITIES WE DO. EACH YEAR WE
TRY TO TOP THE LAST YEAR'S SILLINESS. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE ALWAYS
INSULTS TO EACH OTHER, A LARGER ACTIVITY ALSO TAKES SHAPE. SOME
EXAMPLES FROM PREVIOUS YEARS ARE THE SINGING OF SHOW TUNES WITH
GENDER REVERSALS FOR THE LEADING ROLES AND THE CONSTRUCTION AND
WEARING OF REINDEER ANTLERS MADE OF GROCERY BAGS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; ROSEVILLE
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 25 Christmas Also see F642, below. |
Date learned: 00001980S
FOR THE POLISH, CHRISTMAS EVE IS CELEBRATED BY WIGILIA. OUR
VERSION OF WIGILIA BEGINS WITH THE DISTRIBUTION OF OPLATECK, OR
WAFERS, WITH WHICH WE EXCHANGE GOOD WISHES FOR EACH OTHER FOR THE
COMING YEAR. WITH EACH WISH, WE BREAK OFF A SMALL PIECE OF THE
OTHER'S WAFER. WHEN EVERYONE HAS EXCHANGED WISHES IT IS TIME FOR
A DELICIOUS MEATLESS DINNER. THIS DINNER BEGINS WITH MUSHROOM
SOUP AND FEATURES PIEROGIS, HERRING AND ANOTHER FISH, POTATO
SALAD, A GREEN SALAD, AND, SOMETIMES, WHITE WINE. AFTER DINNER,
THE DISHES ARE DONE. WE THEN GATHER AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE AND
NATIVITY SCENE AND EXCHANGE SMALL GIFTS. THIS IS HELD AT MY
GRANDMA'S HOUSE.
Submitter comment:
WHEN MY SISTER AND I WERE VERY YOUNG, MY GRANDPA AND MY DAD
WOULD CARRY IN GIFTS WHILE WE WERE DISTRACTED. THEY WOULD SAY,
"HO, HO, HO!" AND WE WOULD RUN IN TO TRY TO CATCH SANTA. SANTA
ALWAYS MOVED TOO FAST FOR US!
Date learned: 0001970S
On Christmas Eve, we sing Menybol az Angyal, a Hungarian
religious song that announces the arrival of the Christmas Tree
brought by the angels.
Submitter comment: My mother learned this from her mother in the 1940's
Where learned: HUNGARY
| Subject headings: | Ballad Song Dance Game Music Verse -- Religious CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 24 Christmas Eve CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 21 solstice to March 20 Christmas tree BELIEF -- Angel |
Date learned: 00001940S
Before the Gregorian calendar was placed into effect by Pope
Gregory XIII in 1582, Christmas was celebrated on January sixth
according to the Julian calendar which was created by Julius Caesar
in about 46 B.C. The calendar was accepted in France in 1582 but it
was not until 1752 that Great Britain decided to adopt it. My
informant is not sure when Greece accepted the new calendar because
even though Christmas in Greece is celebrated on December 25,
tradition is still to celebrate Christmas on January sixth. My
informant assumes, however, that it was accepted around the same time
Europe (France) accepted it in 1582ca.
Where learned: GREECE
Keyword(s): EPIPHANY
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- January 6 Twelfth Day Epiphany CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 25 Christmas Also see F642, below. |
Date learned: 00001943CA
Wishing
When eating Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner, cut out the
wishbone carefully without breaking it. Let the bone dry
overnight so it will snap easily. When the bone is dry, two
people take ahold of opposite ends of the wishbone. Then you
count to three, "one, two, three, go..." and each person pulls on
the bone at the same time until the bone breaks. Whoever gets the
larger segment of the bone has their wish granted. To cheat place
your thumb on the bone which connects the two bones together and
you push forward while they pull. This snaps the bone below the
connecting piece, making the other person's bone shorter.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; Frankenmuth
Date learned: 00-00-1976
A tradition in our house is oysters on Christmas Eve.
Where learned: DETROIT
Date learned: 00001960S
On November 25 of every year all the family get together and
have dinner. It is a Thanksgiving, prechristmas type of deal.
Dinner is on this day so that all the family can have dinner
together, and on Thanksgiving you can visit your in-laws or whom
ever. Most importantly on this day we all put our names in a hat
and pull a name. Whom ever you pick this is who you buy a
Christmas gift for. On Christmas day we exchange.
Submitter comment:
The family is so large that you can't usually buy a good gift
for every one; this way everyone gets a nice gift and you don't
have to feel bad because you left someone out.
Where learned: DETROIT
Date learned: 00001960S
The Kwanza Celebration is a festival for African - Americans
that takes the place of Christmas, where festivities are performed
for seven days and each day reflects on African - American culture
Each evening one of seven candles are lit and that principle for
the day is discussed. The last day comprises a large meal and
small exchange of gifts.
Where learned: CALIFORNIA ; Merced
| Subject headings: | 686 Seven / Sevenths / Several CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 25 Christmas Also see F642, below. |
Polish Religious Custom
At the Christmas meal Holy Wafers, which are brought home from
church, are put on a plate in the middle of the table. Before the
meal is begun, the head of the family, usually the father, starts
by taking a wafer, offering it to the person on his right to break
off a piece and wishing the person well. Then that person follows
by offering it to the person to their right and wishing that person
well. This continues until everyone at the table has received a
piece of the wafer and good wishes.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; HAMTRAMCK
| Subject headings: | CUSTOM FESTIVAL -- December 25 Christmas Also see F642, below. Food Drink -- Typical menus for the various meals For meal hours, see F574.84. Special or festive meals |
Date learned: 03-00-1992