I've been hearing a lot of Christmas songs with the word 'YULE' and/or 'YULE TIDE' in them...thought I would check it out...WOW!!
Yule or Yule-tide was a Germanic midwinter festival involving a sacrificial feast that was absorbed into Christmas. The pagan Germanic peoples celebrated Yule from late December to early January on a date determined by the lunar Germanic calendar, and various theories surround the festival. The term is still used in the Nordic Countries and to a lesser extent the Anglosphere to refer to Christmas. Customs such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others stem from Yule. In modern times, Yule is observed with religious rites by some Christians and by some Neopagans.
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