Christmas in Ritual And Tradition, Christian And Pagan
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Notalways is it consciously the dead for whom these preparations are made, sometimes they are said to be for the Trolls and sometimes even for|236| the Saviour and His angels. {24} (We may compare with thisChristian idea the Tyrolese custom of leaving some milk for the ChristChild and His Mother{25} at the hour of Midnight Mass, and a Bretonpractice of leaving food all through Christmas night in case the Virginshould come. {26}) It is difficult to say how far the other supernatural beings--thei...r nameis legion--who in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland are believed tocome out of their underground hiding-places during the long darkChristmas nights, were originally ghosts of the dead. Twenty years agomany students would have accounted for them all in this way, but thetendency now is strongly against the derivation of all supernaturalbeings from ancestor-worship. Elves, trolls, dwarfs, witches, and otheruncanny folk--the beliefs about their Christmas doings are too many to betreated here; readers of Danish will find a long and very interestingchapter on this subject in Dr.
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