Show middle age yule yide lasted many days during the middle ages people didn dian t like short holidays any cele bration that lasted less than a week just wasn gasn t worthwhile the entire christmas season tor for example was celebrated in aquai fervor with that now shown I 1 on christmas day in some lands the celebration lasted from december 24 to january 6 twelfth highl night and in others from december 21 to february 2 eventually these long celebia eions got out of hand and became such wild orgies that the puritans forbade the celebration of christ mas in the year 1644 it was not until 1678 that charles II 11 re estal dished christmas |