Encyclopedia of Christmas and New Year's celebrations : over 240 alphabetically arranged entries covering Christmas, New Year's, and related days of observance, including folk and religious customs, history, legends, and symbols from around the world; supplemented by a bibliography and lists of Christmas Web sites and associations ... / Tanya Gulevich ; illustrated by Mary Ann Stavros-Lanning.

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Gulevich, Tanya [Author]

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Gulevich, Tanya

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9780780806252

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GT4985 .E539 2003
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Advent -- Advent calendar -- Advent candle -- Advent wreath -- America, colonial -- America, nineteenth-century -- Amish Christmas -- Angels -- Annunciation -- Armenia -- Auld lang syne -- Australia -- Baboushka -- Baby -- Barring out the schoolmaster -- Befana -- Bells -- Berchta -- Bethlehem -- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania -- Birth of the invincible sun -- Black Peter -- Boar's head -- Boxing Day -- Boy Bishop -- Brazil -- Bulgaria -- Candlemas -- Ceremony of lessons and carols -- Cert -- A Charlie Brown Christmas -- Cherry tree -- Children's letters -- Chrismon tree -- Christingle -- Christkindel -- Christmas ale -- Christmas bonus -- Christmas cakes -- Christmas candles -- Christmas card -- A Christmas Carol -- Christmas carol -- Christmas club -- Christmas crackers -- Christmas lads -- Christmas markets -- Christmas rose -- Christmas Seals -- Christmas season -- Christmas sheaf -- Christmas symbols -- Christmas tree -- Christmas village -- Commercialism -- December 25 -- Denmark -- Depression -- Devil's knell -- Ecuador -- Eggnog -- Egypt -- Elves -- Emancipation Day -- England -- Epiphany -- Estonia -- Ethiopia -- Europe, Medieval -- Farolitos -- Father Christmas -- Father Time -- Feast of Fools -- Feast of the ass -- Feast of the Circumcision -- Firstfooting -- Firstnight -- Flight into Egypt -- Football bowl games -- France -- Frankincense -- Frau Gaude -- Gabriel -- Games -- Gaudete Sunday -- Germany -- Ghana -- Ghosts -- Gifts -- Gingerbread -- Glastonbury thorn -- Gold -- Gospel accounts of Christmas -- Gospel according to Luke -- Gospel according to Matthew -- Grandfather Frost -- Greece -- Greenery -- Guatemala -- Hanukkah -- Herod, King -- Hogmanay -- Holly -- Holy Innocents' Day -- How the Grinch stole Christmas -- Iceland -- India -- Iran -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Italy -- It's a wonderful life -- Ivy -- Jesse tree -- Jesus -- Jesus, year of birth -- Jonkonnu -- Julklapp

Subject: Containing 247 entries on Christmas traditions spanning centuries and continents, this encyclopedia looks at folk customs and beliefs, foods and beverages, artistic and popular works, and related celebrations from antiquity to the present. While entries lean heavily toward customs of medieval and Renaissance Europe, there are many entries on the Christmas season in other parts of the world. This second edition contains 60 new entries. Information about the author's background is not given.

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Rev. edition of: Encyclopedia of Christmas. 2000.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Adam and Eve Day -- Advent -- Advent calendar -- Advent candle -- Advent wreath -- America, colonial -- America, nineteenth-century -- Amish Christmas -- Angels -- Annunciation -- Armenia -- Auld lang syne -- Australia -- Baboushka -- Baby -- Barring out the schoolmaster -- Befana -- Bells -- Berchta -- Bethlehem -- Bethlehem, Pennsylvania -- Birth of the invincible sun -- Black Peter -- Boar's head -- Boxing Day -- Boy Bishop -- Brazil -- Bulgaria -- Candlemas -- Ceremony of lessons and carols -- Cert -- A Charlie Brown Christmas -- Cherry tree -- Children's letters -- Chrismon tree -- Christingle -- Christkindel -- Christmas ale -- Christmas bonus -- Christmas cakes -- Christmas candles -- Christmas card -- A Christmas Carol -- Christmas carol -- Christmas club -- Christmas crackers -- Christmas lads -- Christmas markets -- Christmas rose -- Christmas Seals -- Christmas season -- Christmas sheaf -- Christmas symbols -- Christmas tree -- Christmas village -- Commercialism -- December 25 -- Denmark -- Depression -- Devil's knell -- Ecuador -- Eggnog -- Egypt -- Elves -- Emancipation Day -- England -- Epiphany -- Estonia -- Ethiopia -- Europe, Medieval -- Farolitos -- Father Christmas -- Father Time -- Feast of Fools -- Feast of the ass -- Feast of the Circumcision -- Firstfooting -- Firstnight -- Flight into Egypt -- Football bowl games -- France -- Frankincense -- Frau Gaude -- Gabriel -- Games -- Gaudete Sunday -- Germany -- Ghana -- Ghosts -- Gifts -- Gingerbread -- Glastonbury thorn -- Gold -- Gospel accounts of Christmas -- Gospel according to Luke -- Gospel according to Matthew -- Grandfather Frost -- Greece -- Greenery -- Guatemala -- Hanukkah -- Herod, King -- Hogmanay -- Holly -- Holy Innocents' Day -- How the Grinch stole Christmas -- Iceland -- India -- Iran -- Iraq -- Ireland -- Italy -- It's a wonderful life -- Ivy -- Jesse tree -- Jesus -- Jesus, year of birth -- Jonkonnu -- Julklapp

Containing 247 entries on Christmas traditions spanning centuries and continents, this encyclopedia looks at folk customs and beliefs, foods and beverages, artistic and popular works, and related celebrations from antiquity to the present. While entries lean heavily toward customs of medieval and Renaissance Europe, there are many entries on the Christmas season in other parts of the world. This second edition contains 60 new entries. Information about the author's background is not given.

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