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Part One: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas

Behind the Bastards

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The History of the Christmas Tradition

There's actually a lot of weird overlap between Halloween and Christmas. They basically kind of split out the chaos parts of Christmas and gave it to Halloween. Both Kaleen's and Yule had leaving food out for the deities. The Missal Toe may or may not have come from Yule specifically. It wasn't a Christmas thing until the 18th century.

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