Many Christmas folkways have pre-Christian origins

Saturday, December 13, 2003

Nativity scenes of Jesus' birth are visible this month -- though rarely on government property. But many other much-beloved Christmas folkways have secular or pre-Christian origins rather than biblical ones.

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