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* If the SUN is shining on Christmas Day it is said you can expect a fine harvest the coming year. * Children born on Christmas Day itself will never be troubled by Ghosts and are safe from drowning or hanging. Those born on Christmas eve are deemed especially lucky. * Children leave their shoes in front of the door to be filled with sweets. * In modern times the end of the Christmas season comes with the TWELFTH DAY NIGHT, when all decorations must be taken down or extreme bad luck will bestow you the coming year. The eve of Epiphany is called Twelfth Day Night, and the day itself is sometimes referred to as Twelfth Day (Jan 5). * It is bad luck to let any fire go out in your house during the Christmas season. The fire in your fireplace must continue to burn for the twelve days of Christmas. * If an apple is eaten at midnight on Christmas Eve, good health will follow for a year. * Nothing sown on Christmas Eve will perish, even if the seed is sown in the snow. * At midnight on Christmas Eve, all water turns to wine, cattle kneel facing toward the East, horses kneel and blow as if to warm the manger, animals can speak but it is bad for a human to hear them, and the bees hum the Hundredth Psalm. * The Irish believe that the gates of heaven open at midnight on Christmas Eve. Those who die at that time go straight through without having to wait in purgatory.
"Secret Christmas Name" when we were born so he could remember who we were. Find out what yours is...
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