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The great debate: When is Twelfth night?

50 replies

LavenderAskew · 05/01/2022 13:41

Tonight or tomorrow?

Also, very importantly, when do you think is the first day (so first night) of Christmas?

Then lastly, decorations down before or after Twelfth night?

(For full disclosure, I say tonight, Christmas day and before.)

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emmathedilemma · 05/01/2022 13:44

6th January?
Personally I like decorations to be down before I go back to work after New Year but my lunchtime walk showed a lot of people still have them up.

dementedpixie · 05/01/2022 13:44

There's another thread about this already

Interested in this thread?

Then you might like threads about this subject:

LavenderAskew · 05/01/2022 13:46

@dementedpixie

There's another thread about this already
I looked, even did a search. Nothing.

Did that before I created this thread. How rude of search.

Are my questions better? 🤔

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dementedpixie · 05/01/2022 13:48

I've linked the thread

AllThatFancyPaintsAsFair · 05/01/2022 13:52

@dementedpixie

There's another thread about this already
And given that there's no consensus on that thread I don't suppose this one will be any dfferent

I had no idea this was such a big issue for people. Have we lost the ability ro make everyday decisions Grin

midsomermurderess · 05/01/2022 13:54

Have we lost the ability ro make everyday decisions: yes, absolutely yes.

dementedpixie · 05/01/2022 13:54

My stuff went back up the loft yesterday

LavenderAskew · 05/01/2022 13:55

@dementedpixie

I've linked the thread
Yes, I see.

Will explain why search didn't show anything up as it's not the same question!

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LaPufalina · 05/01/2022 13:55

Tonight! 12 days of Christmas includes the 25th itself. Tomorrow is epiphany!

Pegasussnail · 05/01/2022 13:59

I think they stay up tomorrow as the crib had to receive baby Jesus and the women enjoy little Christmas (ireland)

LavenderAskew · 05/01/2022 13:59

I ask because, if Christmas day is Day 1, the Jan 6th (popular choice for Twelfth night) is Day 13.

(I actually don't care about when people take their decorations down. That can be thrashed out on the linked thread. )

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Binglebong · 05/01/2022 14:03

12th night is today (5th). Christmas day is the first.

The decorations one is harder- some Christian tradition states that 12th night should be the biggest celebration so decorations stay up. Other Christians sat it's Epiphany so they should cone down. And pagen tradition states there should be no greenery past 12th night (Although I'm not sure where they got that days from).

SlipperTripper · 05/01/2022 14:15

Today, it says so on my Google Calendar 😂

SlipperTripper · 05/01/2022 14:15

Well, tonight

ApolloandDaphne · 05/01/2022 14:18

My calendar says today.

LavenderAskew · 05/01/2022 14:22

My Google calendar is evidently holding back on me. It says nothing.

Well the schools are back, put I put that in myself. Probably doesn't count.

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emmathedilemma · 05/01/2022 14:46

religionfacts.com/twelfth-night/

GrandmasNightgown · 05/01/2022 14:51

Tonight is Twelfth Night, so decorations stay up, as it's Christmastide until midnight.

They come down at Epiphany - ie tomorrow

Tippexy · 05/01/2022 15:04

Apparently Catholics say twelfth night is the 6th.

amusedbush · 05/01/2022 16:15

The calendar on my MacBook says it's today.

Belindabelle · 05/01/2022 17:22

12th night starts tonight at nightfall and lasts until it starts to get dark tomorrow. Something to do with nightfall marking the start of the new day in olden times before we had clocks.

All decorations down by the time it get darks tomorrow in this house. We then have a special dinner to mark Epiphany and the end of Christmas (as we see it).

I am not religious or particularly superstitious but I like the traditions and we have always done it this way.

Callcat · 05/01/2022 17:26

One of my clients is a vicar and he says today!

bruffin · 05/01/2022 17:33

My watch says today

The great debate: When is Twelfth night?
Longdistance · 05/01/2022 17:34

It’s today. 5th January. Just going to take ours all down after dinner.