TOP TEN Christmas Traditions (& their Origin Stories)

Every Christmas season all sorts of wild theories circulate about the origins of Christmas and where many Christmas traditions come from. But what do historians have to say about the topic? Don’t forget to help us create more videos! We need your support: Sources: Encyclopedia of Christmas and New Year - Tanya Gulevich The Dictionary of English Folklore - Jacqueline Simpson, ‎Steve Roud The Origins of the Liturgical Year - Thomas J. Talley The Stations of the Sun - Ronald Hutton Is Krampus Really Pagan? Tales of Times Forgotten - Spencer McDaniel Al Ridenour - The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas Hesperides Poetry Collection - Robert Herrick Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme - John Aubrey The Reckoning of Time - St. Bede Natural History - Pliny the Elder The Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, Book 1 Heimskringla: History of the Kings of Norway - Snorri Sturluson The Art of Simpling - William Coles Life of Saint Francis of Assisi - Saint Bonaventure Life of Saint Nicholas - Michael the Archimandrite The Oxford Book of Carols - R. Vaughan Williams, Martin Shaw, Percy Dearmer Narrenschiff - Sebastian Brant Sol Invictus, the Winter Solstice, and the Origins of Christmas Number - Steven Hijmans Saturnalia, Book 1 - Macrobius Merkelbach’s Mithras - Roger Beck How December 25 Became Christmas - Andrew McGowan #Holiday #History #Christianity