Little Vigg's Christmas Eve
Author : Viktor Rydberg
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Viktor Rydberg
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : Viktor Rydberg
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 1924
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Page : 764 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Kissinger, Barbara Hallman
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 9781455602216
Author : Phyllis Siefker
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2006-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0786429585
Much of the modern-day vision of Santa Claus is owed to the Clement Moore poem "The Night Before Christmas." His description of Saint Nicholas personified the "jolly old elf" known to millions of children throughout the world. However, far from being the offshoot of Saint Nicholas of Turkey, Santa Claus is the last of a long line of what scholars call "Wild Men" who were worshipped in ancient European fertility rites and came to America through Pennsylvania's Germans. This pagan creature is described from prehistoric times through his various forms--Robin Hood, The Fool, Harlequin, Satan and Robin Goodfellow--into today's carnival and Christmas scenes. In this thoroughly researched work, the origins of Santa Claus are found to stretch back over 50,000 years, jolting the foundation of Christian myths about the jolly old elf.
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Page : 856 pages
File Size : 34,84 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Children's periodicals, American
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Page : 498 pages
File Size : 15,14 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Short stories, American
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Author : Leonard Bacon
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Page : 864 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 1882
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Page : 692 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 1885
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Author : Timothy Larsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0192567128
The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of all aspects of Christmas across the globe, from the specifically religious to the purely cultural. The contributions are drawn from a distinguished group of international experts from across numerous disciplines, including literary scholars, theologians, historians, biblical scholars, sociologists, anthropologists, art historians, and legal experts. The volume provides authoritative treatments of a range of topics, from the origins of Christmas to the present; decorating trees to eating plum pudding; from the Bible to contemporary worship; from carols to cinema; from the Nativity Story to Santa Claus; from Bethlehem to Japan; from Catholics to Baptists; from secularism to consumerism. Christmas is the biggest celebration on the planet. Every year, a significant percentage of the world's population is draw to this holiday—from Cape Cod to Cape Town, from South America to South Korea, and on and on across the globe. The Christmas season takes up a significant part of the entire year. For many countries, the holiday is a major force in their national economy. Moreover, Christmas is not just a modern holiday, but has been an important feast for most Christians since the fourth century and a dominant event in many cultures and countries for over a millennium. The Oxford Handbook of Christmas provides an invaluable reference point for anyone interested in this global phenomenon.