{"id":36514,"date":"2025-12-24T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=36514"},"modified":"2025-12-24T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:28:05","slug":"christmas-yule-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=36514","title":{"rendered":"Christmas: Yule Log"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Christmas: Yule Log <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pagans burned a great log and a mammoth candle on the 21st of December, the shortest day in the year, because it was seen as the turning-point in the conflict between the contending forces of winter and spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From Harpers Bazaaar \u201cThe Yule-block, or Christmas-log, with its warm welcome, extending even to the poor and the stranger as they gathered around the hospitable board is being gradually supplanted by the Christmas-tree.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Formerly the Yule-log, a huge section of the birch, was cut from a tree selected on Candlemas-day, which so late as the time of Queen Elizabeth was the last day of the Christmas holidays. On the following Christmas-eve it was dragged in and placed upon the hearth with great ceremony, the merry-makers pulling with a will, and singing the while the modernized Christmas carol commencing,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCome, bring with a noise,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My merrie, merrie boys,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Christmas-log to the firing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was then kindled with a brand from last year\u2019s Christmas fire, which, if it was not thus kept continually burning, still linked the merrymaking of one Christmas-time to that of another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Ramsgate, Kent, and the Isle of Thanet, the custom styled \u201chodening\u201d is still in vogue. The \u201choden,\u201d which appears to be a cross between the \u201cwhite horse\u201d and the Klapperbock of the Germans, is accompanied by a number of youths in fantastic dress, who go round from door to door ringing bells and singing Christmas carols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/books2read.com\/suziloveHOCP.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/yule_Bringing-In-The-Yule-Log.-Christmas-History.-Suzi-Love-suzilove.com_Lge_Sml.png\" alt=\"Xmas_Yule Log\" class=\"wp-image-36515\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.1705991481800841;width:328px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<span class='bctt-click-to-tweet'><span class='bctt-ctt-text'><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.suzilove.com%2F%3Fp%3D36514&#038;text=Christmas%3A%20Bring%20In%20the%20Yule%20Log%20%23christmas%20%23holidays%20%23custom%20%23tradition%20http%3A%2F%2Fbooks2read.com%2FsuziloveHOCP.&#038;via=SuziLove&#038;related=SuziLove' target='_blank'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christmas: Bring In the Yule Log #christmas #holidays #custom #tradition http:\/\/books2read.com\/suziloveHOCP. <\/a><\/span><a href='https:\/\/x.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.suzilove.com%2F%3Fp%3D36514&#038;text=Christmas%3A%20Bring%20In%20the%20Yule%20Log%20%23christmas%20%23holidays%20%23custom%20%23tradition%20http%3A%2F%2Fbooks2read.com%2FsuziloveHOCP.&#038;via=SuziLove&#038;related=SuziLove' target='_blank' class='bctt-ctt-btn'rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Share on X<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/books2read.com\/suziloveHOCP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOCP_D2D_Link-1024x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-33062\" style=\"width:389px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOCP_D2D_Link-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOCP_D2D_Link-600x335.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOCP_D2D_Link-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOCP_D2D_Link-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOCP_D2D_Link-1536x857.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOCP_D2D_Link-640x357.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/HOCP_D2D_Link.jpg 1836w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas: Bring In the Yule Log #christmas #holidays #custom #tradition http:\/\/books2read.com\/suziloveHOCP.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?p=36514\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,964,979,576,616,662,985,659,497,466,494,1033,476,547,1091,498,488],"tags":[742,755,1205,238,246,18],"class_list":["post-36514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1700s","category-1800s","category-1900s","category-australia","category-canada","category-christmas","category-customs","category-edwardian-era","category-england","category-europe","category-georgian-era","category-history-of-christmases-past","category-regency-era","category-romantic-era","category-south-pacific","category-u-s-a","category-victorian-era","tag-christmas","tag-customs-and-traditions","tag-holidays","tag-household","tag-jane-austen","tag-regency-era"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Suzi Love","author_link":"https:\/\/www.suzilove.com\/?author=1"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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