Long before the advent of Christianity, plants and trees
that remained green all year had a special meaning for people in the winter.
Just as
people today decorate their homes during the festive season with pine,
spruce, and fir trees, ancient peoples hung evergreen boughs over their doors
and windows. In many countries it was believed that evergreens would keep away
witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness
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In the Northern
hemisphere, the shortest day and longest
night of the year falls on December 21 or December 22 and is called the winter
solstice. Many ancient people believed that the sun was a god and that winter
came every year because the sun god had become sick and weak. They celebrated
the solstice because it meant that at last the sun
god would begin to get well.
Evergreen boughs reminded them of all the green plants that would grow again
when the sun god was strong and summer would return.
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