Regency Traditions Video: Burning the Yule Log
Burning the Yule Log Read the scene: Elizabeth’s First Yule Log here. Read more about Yule Logs here. If you enjoyed this post you might also enjoy:
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Regency Christmas Traditions: Christmas Eve, Christmas and Boxing Day
A full month of posts to celebrate the Christmastide season. Stories, traditions, recipes, videos, games and a giveaway to fill your Yuletide with Regency Era fun. December 24th: Christmas Eve On Christmas Eve, the decorations and greenery were put up throughout the house. Bringing in greenery prior to Christmas eve was considered bad luck. Traditional greenery included holly, ivy, rosemary, evergreen, hawthorn and, bay leaf, laurel, and hellebore (Christmas rose). Some households fashioned kissing … Continue reading →
Regency Christmas Traditions: Christmas Carols-Songs of Joy
Caroling and Christmas carols played a distinct part in regency era Christmas celebrations. Start of Caroling People have used songs and music as a part of celebration for as long as we have recorded history. The word carol comes from Latin the words meaning sing and joy. Thus carols are songs of joy. The songs we know as Christmas carols have both sacred and secular roots. Some began as hymns of the church. Da, puer, … Continue reading →
Regency Christmas Traditions: Mumpers, Mummers and Sword Dancers
A full month of posts to celebrate the Christmastide season. Stories, traditions, recipes, videos, games and a giveaway to fill your Yuletide with Regency Era fun. Amidst all the fun and frivolity of the season, charity also played a large part of the Christmastide season. In addition to the normal parish collections, an number of other seasonal opportunities for charity came during the Christmas season. St. Thomas Day The Feast of St. Thomas the Apostle, celebrated … Continue reading →
Regency Christmas Traditions: Boar’s Head and Brawn
Traditional foods are always important to a celebration. Every family and culture has particular dishes that speak of holidays. Festivities would be incomplete without them. Regency celebrants looked for the appearance of Boar’s Head and/or Brawn on the Christmas dinner table. Boar’s Head and Brawn Wild boar was the most feared animal. (Even today feral hogs cause much destruction and anxiety in modern neighborhoods.) Its presence at a meal represented the victory of good over evil. … Continue reading →