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Evergreens — boughs, wreaths and the decorated tree — appear in medieval Germanic and later popular practice as symbols of life and the returning sun during midwinter; scholars and popular writers lin...
The word “geletide” does not appear in the available search results; reporting instead covers “Yule”/“yuletide” (a Germanic midwinter festival attested in English from about 1475) and separate histori...
Scholarly and popular histories consistently trace Halloween’s customs to the Gaelic festival Samhain and later Christian observances around November 1, though some historians note Germanic parallels ...