The Christmas Tree

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Back in the day, the custom in Europe was to make offerings to the Gods to improve the harvests, the fertility of the women, the good term of the passage or any other desire. The Earth fruits were offered to them in these rites and especially, to attribute magical conditions to him, the trees of oak, laurel were chosen and fir. Also the fire was an offering to the Gods, thus the lights illuminated the branches to help the lost souls. The Christmas tree was born like a pagan custom during the Roman Germanic civilization. With the arrival of the Christianity it incorporated it to the Church in the rites it transformed and it into an element that symbolized the life and under their branches the towns became ordained and hope peacefully protected by the light of the redeeming one. The Nordic towns, adorned their homes at the winter times with fir leaves and muérdago to frighten the bad spirits who could bother and become ill to the cattle or until ruining the harvests. With the division of the Lútero church it imposes the image of the Christmas pine to replace the image of the traditional manger. The first country that accepted the fir as Christian symbol were Germany. In England at the Victorian time he was the alert prince who had been born in Germany, that gave to its children a pine of 13 mts. of stop popularizing the custom in all the court. The first trees were decorated with roses of multicoloured paper, apples and ostias. Soon treats, figures of little angels were being added him and arrived created crystal globes in Bohemia. The custom of of the Christmas tree I become popular in all Europe through the alliances and marriages of the German royalty with ace Houses of England, France and Russia. In Italy and Spain, by the preference towards the manger its acceptance was delayed. At the United States, it arrived with the German immigration of Centuries XIX and XX. The traditional candles were replaced by multicoloured garlands with the arrival of the electricity. Also the custom is to arm it in family day 8 of December and so that the incoming year blesses the family the prop will have to place it the Father or Head of family and to request three desires. Certainly they will be fulfilled.

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