Very interesting. It’s sad Christmas has almost just become a couple of days of retail madness and all over by Boxing Day , we should have more of the simple traditions brought back into it
For me it was always family. 20 years ago my 7 year old son and I, with a kitchen machine, made "snow" out of polystyrene. With the static electricity he was "the snow boy", best decorated Christmas tree I ever had. Got total shit from my wife....😂😂 ..polystyrene balls all over the place. My son thought it was great so did I. He still remembers it 20 years later, and still thinks it was top.
So this is a choice. We give gifts too, but we begin celebrating early-December. And the focus is food and music and lots of nice smells. We have one day of thoughtful gifts, not too much, but we celebrate in the Tudor way., observing winter solstice too. It’s all about food and love for us. And one day of a few thoughtful presents. You won’t hurt your kids by not spoiling them. You’ll do them well by celebrating for a month or more. Toys come and go. Traditions are lasting.
Very informative. Thank you. What is so sad is that Christmas has become one of retail madness sometimes starting in September. Wish we would have more of the simple traditions brought back.
I was going to say this but you've already said it, thank you. As a musician, all I could pay attention to was the repetition of the music! So distracting to the messages being given!
Oh I know right? They could have at least found a complete song to use, rather than one that seemingly consists of only few notes of a song, before repeating itself in a continuous irritating loop, ad nauseum.
“People fasted until Christmas Eve.” As someone feeding three who makes enough food to feed thirty, I’m feeling this. I don’t eat for a week leading up. I’m like a camel ready to load the hump. Henry VIII would call uncle before I do.
Amazing that Christmas traditions have successfully survived since Roman times. Very surprising that the lowly peasant got a 12 day break at Christmas (barring caring for animals) and the fun & lengthy reign of the Lord of Misrule. That doesn't fit the popular narrative of constant starvation, conflict and oppression that we're told today. Interesting!
12 days off in 365! And lets face it they still had to look after the animals, so how much of a holiday was it? they still had to get up at dawn to do the milking, feeding, moving them to new pastures etc. And I doubt the masters served themselves so domestic servants would still have been working, cooking and cleaning etc.
@@janetpendlebury6808 no you are totally wrong... There was many holidays and feasts throughout the year .. Additionally look at americans.. NO mandated holidays throughout the year.. And one scofs at the middle ages
Catholics loved co-opting pagan festivals for their religious holidays. They weren't even subtle about it. Easter, for instance, was named from the goddess Oestera known by her most notable icons of rabbits/ bunnies. Sound familiar?
3:36 The narrator says that those who refused to make a donation had their doorfronts plowed up. Is this the origin of the tradition of grooms carrying their brides over the doorjam? It's only a tradition in those families that kidnapped their wives, right?
The tradition is carrying the bride over the threshold. There are many theories why the tradition started. The first is that it originated Medieval Europe where many believed that a bride was especially vulnerable to evil spirits through the soles of her feet. So, to protect her from bringing those evil spirits into the couple's new home, the groom would carry his bride through the front door.
I'd guess two possible reasons. First, a woman was being taken from her father's care, to her husband's. Carrying her symbolises her helplessness and dependence on men. I believe originally she would have been carried all the way from door to door. Many marriage traditions echo more violent times, and some peoples had a practice of kidnapping the bribe. Two were, historians believe, the Vikings, and the very early Romans. So there's more symbolism and barely remembered tradition. Possibly the tradition symbolised a bride was to be kept/confined in her husband's home, and for that reason her shoes were removed, and she was carried. Indicating she wasn't to be exposed to another man's gaze and seduction.... Or she was carried to indicate the protectiveness of her husband. ETA just realised I didn't answer the question, so I wrote another!
In answer to your question (after writing my essay). I thought the ground in front of the house was chopped about. That would show everyone you'd been miserly, without committing the sin of gossiping and saying evil about others. It would also in winter make it hard to get into the house without leaving huge muddy deposits on the floor. Also, shoes were nowhere as sturdy as they can be now, so you'd have wet cold feet all day
Very interesting. It’s sad Christmas has almost just become a couple of days of retail madness and all over by Boxing Day , we should have more of the simple traditions brought back into it
Totally agree David
For me it was always family. 20 years ago my 7 year old son and I, with a kitchen machine, made "snow" out of polystyrene. With the static electricity he was "the snow boy", best decorated Christmas tree I ever had. Got total shit from my wife....😂😂 ..polystyrene balls all over the place.
My son thought it was great so did I. He still remembers it 20 years later, and still thinks it was top.
So this is a choice. We give gifts too, but we begin celebrating early-December. And the focus is food and music and lots of nice smells. We have one day of thoughtful gifts, not too much, but we celebrate in the Tudor way., observing winter solstice too. It’s all about food and love for us. And one day of a few thoughtful presents.
You won’t hurt your kids by not spoiling them. You’ll do them well by celebrating for a month or more. Toys come and go. Traditions are lasting.
You can, just do it
Very informative. Thank you. What is so sad is that Christmas has become one of retail madness sometimes starting in September. Wish we would have more of the simple traditions brought back.
This was lovely, informative and entertaining, thank you!!
Good video, but the only thing that spoils it is that music on a continuous loop. It starts to get annoying after about the fiftieth repetition.
forty-ninth repetition, ?but who's counting?
Only thing worse is those cheap ass presenters who use robot voice announcers after 30 seconds of that mess I'm f*cking GONE...YECHHH...
I was going to say this but you've already said it, thank you. As a musician, all I could pay attention to was the repetition of the music! So distracting to the messages being given!
i loved the info but the 10 second music loop drove me nuts
The looped music is enough to make me turn this video off.
Oh I know right? They could have at least found a complete song to use, rather than one that seemingly consists of only few notes of a song, before repeating itself in a continuous irritating loop, ad nauseum.
This was excellent. I loved it!
“People fasted until Christmas Eve.”
As someone feeding three who makes enough food to feed thirty, I’m feeling this. I don’t eat for a week leading up. I’m like a camel ready to load the hump. Henry VIII would call uncle before I do.
There was a time when community really depended on each other. They had to party together and feed each other. That's rarely the case now.
I just looked for a transcript, because if I turn that dam music off I lose the narration
The Yule Log is still used in Bosnia
Amazing that Christmas traditions have successfully survived since Roman times. Very surprising that the lowly peasant got a 12 day break at Christmas (barring caring for animals) and the fun & lengthy reign of the Lord of Misrule. That doesn't fit the popular narrative of constant starvation, conflict and oppression that we're told today. Interesting!
12 days off in 365! And lets face it they still had to look after the animals, so how much of a holiday was it? they still had to get up at dawn to do the milking, feeding, moving them to new pastures etc. And I doubt the masters served themselves so domestic servants would still have been working, cooking and cleaning etc.
@@janetpendlebury6808 no you are totally wrong... There was many holidays and feasts throughout the year .. Additionally look at americans.. NO mandated holidays throughout the year.. And one scofs at the middle ages
CHRISTMAS IN JULY
and a full year later, I'm saying the same thing. 😆
"Ho, ho, ho (Don't Be A Turkey at Christmas)"
--- Sir E. John
Catholics loved co-opting pagan festivals for their religious holidays. They weren't even subtle about it. Easter, for instance, was named from the goddess Oestera known by her most notable icons of rabbits/ bunnies. Sound familiar?
I thought I saw pennywise when the first picture of feast of fools or whatever it was.
I believe that the term ‘plum pudding’ is erroneous and derived and corrupted from ‘plump pudding’, which it certainly is.
Penance is still very much in vogue in the Catholic world
3:36 The narrator says that those who refused to make a donation had their doorfronts plowed up. Is this the origin of the tradition of grooms carrying their brides over the doorjam? It's only a tradition in those families that kidnapped their wives, right?
The tradition is carrying the bride over the threshold. There are many theories why the tradition started. The first is that it originated Medieval Europe where many believed that a bride was especially vulnerable to evil spirits through the soles of her feet. So, to protect her from bringing those evil spirits into the couple's new home, the groom would carry his bride through the front door.
I'd guess two possible reasons. First, a woman was being taken from her father's care, to her husband's. Carrying her symbolises her helplessness and dependence on men. I believe originally she would have been carried all the way from door to door. Many marriage traditions echo more violent times, and some peoples had a practice of kidnapping the bribe. Two were, historians believe, the Vikings, and the very early Romans. So there's more symbolism and barely remembered tradition.
Possibly the tradition symbolised a bride was to be kept/confined in her husband's home, and for that reason her shoes were removed, and she was carried. Indicating she wasn't to be exposed to another man's gaze and seduction.... Or she was carried to indicate the protectiveness of her husband.
ETA just realised I didn't answer the question, so I wrote another!
In answer to your question (after writing my essay). I thought the ground in front of the house was chopped about. That would show everyone you'd been miserly, without committing the sin of gossiping and saying evil about others. It would also in winter make it hard to get into the house without leaving huge muddy deposits on the floor. Also, shoes were nowhere as sturdy as they can be now, so you'd have wet cold feet all day
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Fascinating info, but the narration. z z z z z z z z z
Never-the-less ~ Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good life!
There are 200 channels like that. Is it so awful to have ONE that isn't geared to a short attention span?
Interesting, but I found the repetition of the Boar’s Head Carol .. um .. boring.