Lost Xmas Traditions

https://www.mentalfloss.com/lost-christmas-traditions?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/23959267.yorks-hidden-history-used-celebrate-christmas/ In many ways the medieval Christmas was quite different from what had gone before or what it was to become in later centuries. The 12-day period of Christmas was a religious feast, and the church mandated attendance at its services. But other days during the Christmas festival were also observed. The shortest day (December 21), which also happened to be St Thomas’s Day, was celebrated in York with the custom of the Yule Riding, when a disguised couple (Yule and Yule’s Wife) would carry a leg or shoulder of lamb and a cake of ‘purest meale’ through the streets of the city to the playing of music and the crowds throwing nuts.