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Show ' QUESTIONS 1 Who was Kris Kringle? 2 What does the name Kris j Kringle mean? 3 Who wrote the first Christmas Christ-mas Carols? When? 4 What superstition had the Scotch about the Christmas candle? can-dle? 5 By what other name Is mistletoe mis-tletoe known? 6 Where did the custom of kissing under the mistletoe begin? be-gin? 7 When were Christmas candles can-dles first used? 8 How long has the practice of gift giving at Christmas been observed? 9 How did the custom of hanging hang-ing Xmas stockings originate? 10 Why are candles used during dur-ing the Christmas season? ANSWERS . ANSWERS: 1. Santa Claus' helper. 2. "Little Christ Child". 3. St. Francis ol Assissi and his friars in Italy during the 13th century. 4. It was considered an omen of bad fortune if the candle went out before midnight. 5. The Golden Bough. 6. England. 7. In the middle ages at the Jewish "Feast of Lights." 8. Since the fourth century. 9. St. Nick once dropped a , purse of coins down the chimney of I a poor family. It landed in a stocking that had been hung to dry. 10. As J symbols of the star of Bethlehem. |