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Show Singing Christmas Carols The custom of singing Christmas carols on the eve of Christmas came to us from England, En-gland, though for a time it and other Christmas observances observ-ances were banned in Puritan Puri-tan New England. AS PURITAN pressure relaxed, re-laxed, a custom began of placing plac-ing lighted candles in homes in Boston and spread to various parts of the country. And the English caroling custom, which had long been accepted in the South, then penetrated into more conservative conser-vative New England. FOR MANY years it was the custom of night watchmen to gather together and sing carols and, in the South, students took up the custom. |