does anyone know about the origins of Christmas?

[wannabedomesticgoddess]

Where did the idea of stockings come from?

Why a turkey dinner?

What actually are the twelve days of christmas?

Does anyone know about these things? Or are there any other christmas things which make you wonder?

Maybe origins was the wrong word!

Stockings are what Santa's mistresses wore and he was caught by Mrs Clause buying some. He panicked and said he was using them for toys. He can't back out or she will find out the truth.

Turkey is because all the other animals weren't dry tasting enough

Only 12 days as the true love ran.out of money on the 13th

Stockings - There is an old story about St Nicholas (when he was Bishop of somewhere) giving money to needy people by dropping moneybags down their chimney. As everyone used to wear stockings, which would be washed and hung to dry by the fire, the money would end up in the stockings. Specifically, the stoy I've been told is about a merchant with 3 daughters, who was bankrupted, so St Nicholas provided the daughters' dowries by dropping money in their stockings.

Turkey dinners are new - geese used to be more popular.

The twelve days of Christmas are the days between Christmas and Twelfth night - the night when (apparently) the three wise men finally made it to Bethlehem to see the baby Jesus.

:o SP!

Thats really interesting pip. So when do the twelve days start?

See I thought stockings came after St Nick put oranges and coins in a really hard up familys shoe one year.

The twelve days start on Christmas Day. Twelfth Day this Christmas is the 5th January. You have to take your decorations down by then.

Before christmas trees, were houses decorated for christmas?

I think turkey eating is an idea we imported from the States?

Goose was always the traditional Christmas feast afaik.