Christmas
In both Ukrainian and German lore, the tale of the Christmas spider explains the origin of tinsel. The story tells of a poor widow who couldnt buy fancy gifts for her children or decorations for their tree. One Christmas Eve, she decorated a tree as best she could with fruits and nuts. After she went to sleep, spiders came out and crawled over the tree, leaving their webs behind. When Father Christmas visited the house, he saw the web-covered tree and decided to turn the webs to silver. In …
- June 9, 2017
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- after
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- best
- both
- Buy
- came
- children
- Christmas
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- crawled
- decided
- decorated
- decorations
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- explains
- Fancy
- Father
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- fruits
- German
- Gifts
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- House.
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- Saw
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- Silver
- sleep
- Spider
- spiders
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- tale
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- tree
- Turn
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