"Old Santeclaus with Much Delight" is an anonymous illustrated children's poem published in New York in 1821, predating by two years the first publication...

preserves or suckets.[page needed] A cookbook from 1609, Delights for Ladies, describes boiling fruits with sugar as "the most kindly way to preserve plums."...

reference to Santa's sleigh being pulled by a reindeer appears in "Old Santeclaus with Much Delight", an 1821 illustrated children's poem published in New York...

a "Fool Plough", a plough decked with ribands brought into the barn by a dozen mummers together with a grotesque "Old Bessie" (played by a man), and a...

published in New York. It contained "Old Santeclaus with Much Delight", an anonymous poem describing Santeclaus on a reindeer sleigh, bringing rewards...

1821, A New-Year’s Present, contained an illustrated poem Old Santeclaus with Much Delight in which a Santa Claus figure on a reindeer sleigh brings presents...

(schauriglustig) antics appeared in medieval church plays. A large literature, much of it by European folklorists, bears on these subjects. ... Austrians in...

the earliest unambiguous references to Grýla's gender and her association with Christmas date only from the seventeenth century. In seventeenth-century...

of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold. He is a variant of Old Man Winter who is held responsible for frosty weather, nipping the fingers...

it is the only species native to the British Isles and much of Europe. A related species with red fruits, rather than white, Viscum cruciatum, occurs...

elephants are considered to be highly valuable and sacred in Thai culture, so much that any white elephant that is found must immediately be brought to the...

agglomeration with Bethlehem. The Aida and Azza refugee camps are located within the city limits. In the center of Bethlehem is its old city. The old city consists...

topped with browned meringue. The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish, lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with meringue...

realises that he will never love her as much as he loves money. Finally, they visit a now-married Belle with her large, happy family on the Christmas...

main building of the Village, for visitors to take photographs and chat with Santa Claus. However, Santa Claus has an "office hour" and he may not be...

sing in every key imaginable as delighted parade participants join in the cacophony. Sometimes, the Befanas dance with paradegoers and dust down the willing...

They were often given as gifts, and at some point they became associated with Christmas season. They grew in popularity around the 19th century and spread...

Pacific-facing slopes. One population in the Mexican state of Guerrero is much further inland, however, and is thought to be the ancestor of most cultivated...

through a legal charter. Landowners often has contracts with their tenants that laid out exactly how much wood could be collected from the forest for their...

Festa dei sette pesci) is an Italian American celebration of Christmas Eve with dishes of fish and other seafood. Christmas Eve is a vigil or fasting day...

(representing the light and the world respectively) which is typically decorated with a red ribbon and sweets or dried fruit. It has been a feature in Moravian...

Martin's Day or Martinmas (obsolete: Martlemas), and historically called Old Halloween or All Hallows Eve, is the feast day of Saint Martin of Tours and...

Francis Pharcellus Church. Written in response to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon asking whether Santa Claus was real, the editorial was...

squeeze of fresh lime juice, which is shaken with the advocaat before pouring into a glass and topping up with lemonade. In the United Kingdom, it is often...

The second expression, "drinkhail", may derive either from Old Norse or Old English, again with a variety of spellings including drinkel, drincheheil, drechehel...

as kings by at least the third century, which conformed with Christian interpretations of Old Testament prophecies that the messiah would be worshipped...

abiding resentment. The TV special The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat lays much of the blame on the absence of the Grinch's mother, who had been a positive...

relish made out of cranberries, commonly served as a condiment or a side dish with Thanksgiving dinner in North America and Christmas dinner in the United Kingdom...

28 years old (Greek original: "15 years of age"). There he faithfully farmed the taxes of that region for the Roman Senate, and he met with success in...

night of the "Old Twelfth" (17 January; equivalent to 6 January in the old Julian calendar), people would disguise themselves with old articles of clothing...