Author Topic: Happy Three Kings Day! (Read 3217 times)

Bernie AKA · « **on:** Jan 06, 2005, 12:48:05 PM »

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Traditionally in Mexico, Three Kings Day was the gift-giving time, rather than Christmas day. Just as it is common for children to leave cookies for Santa in the U.S., in some regions of Mexico, it was customary for children to leave their shoes out on the night of Jan. 5, often filling them with hay for the camels, in hopes that the Three Kings would be generous. Mexican children would awake on Jan. 6 to find their shoes filled with toys and gifts. Today, many Mexican-American families concentrate their gift-giving around the Christmas holiday, but some still give gifts for both Christmas and Three Kings Day.

This was a good day to get invited to dinner in Brownsville.

Hay being in short supply, all the kids would be outside the night before pulling up dead grass.

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This twelfth night of the twelve days of Christmas is the official end of the winter holiday season and one of the traditional days for taking down the Christmas decorations. This is also a traditional day for wassailing apple trees. In southern and western England, revelers gathered in orchards where they sang to the trees, drank to their health, poured hot cider over their roots, left cider-soaked toast in their branches for the birds and scared away evil spirits with a great shout and the firing of guns.

And the drunken birds just sat there in a hail of shot. Maybe that's where the fire-in-the-air New Year's tradition came from.

Evil Monkey-Tom · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 06, 2005, 01:35:49 PM »

Kary's family celebrates three king's day, but now that her parents are newly divorced.... I don't think it'll be a happy holiday.

B E C K · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 06, 2005, 07:10:20 PM »

I hope those are new shoes because those gotta be some stinky gifts. Nice to know I wasn't late taking down the X-Mas theme, but now I have to take it down tonight. Quick, someone toss me an idea for a replacement theme. Is it too early to decorate for Valentine's Day?

Extra Zero · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 06, 2005, 07:43:49 PM »

According to Wal*Mart, you should have been decorating for Valentine's Day in late November.

Evil Monkey-Tom · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 06, 2005, 07:44:52 PM »

FRODO!!!

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 06, 2005, 10:22:04 PM »

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This twelfth night of the twelve days of Christmas is the official end of the winter holiday season

in south america the end of the winter season is december 25th B)