Penny: …Christmas Tree? Sheldon: No, because we don’t - TopicsExpress



          

Penny: …Christmas Tree? Sheldon: No, because we don’t celebrate the ancient pagan festival of Saturnalia. In the pre-Christian era as the winter solstice approached and the plants died, pagan brought evergreen boughs into their homes as an act of sympathetic magic intended to guard the life essences of the plants until spring…, this custom was later appropriated by northern Europeans … eventually it became the so-called ‘Christmas Tree’.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:55:51 +0000

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