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We'll hunt the wren, says Robin to Bobin We'll hunt the wren, says Richie the Robin We'll hunt the wren, says Jack of the land We'll hunt the wren says everyone   The wren, the wren is king of the birds St. Stephen's Day he's caught in the furze Although he is little, his family is great We pray you, good people to give us a trate   Where, oh where? .... In yonder green bush How get him down? With sticks and stones How get him home? The brewer's big cart How'll we ate him? With knives and forks Who'll come to the dinner? The king and the queen Eyes to the blind, says Robin to Bobbin Legs to the lame, says Richie the robin (Pluck) to the poor, says Jack of the land Bones to the dogs, says everyone. 'Hunting the Wren', traditional. Today is St Stephen's Day, known as Boxing Day and Wrenning Day, old England   Read about Wrenning Day and other December 26 lore in our second big page

On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
A partridge in a pear tree.

On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me
Two turtle doves
And a partridge in a pear tree.

1. Some healing to set me free
2. Gifts from my love
3. A helping dream

Twelvetide

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Day 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  10  11  12

The first day of Christmas: the 12 Days of Christmas begin  

The twelve days of Christmas owe their origin to the Roman Saturnalia, a festival in honour of Saturn, the god of Agriculture. The first day is December 26 and the twelfth and last is Epiphany, ie, January 6. The Twelve Days have traditionally been a time of festivities, though there are sombre religious days within them.

"We are told that the ancient Egyptians, at the Winter Solstice, used a palm branch containing twelve leaves or shoots to symbolise the 'completion of the year.'"  
Ivor H Evans, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Cassell, London, 1988

When do the Twelve Days of Christmas actually begin and end, and why?

The Romans may have celebrated Saturnalia from December 17 through December 24, but when are the Twelve Days of Christmas? We say they are from December 26 till January 6 inclusive.

Discussed also at January 5 (Epiphany Eve) in the Book of Days, and here

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Feast day of goddess Nitauqrit (Nitocris; Rhodopis), Queen of Egypt This Egyptian goddess was known as 'The Rosy-cheeked Beauty', builder of the Third or Southern Pyramid. The Greeks gave her the more harmonious name of Rhodopis, which was the exact translation of the characteristic epithet of the Egyptian queen. One day as she bathed in the Nile, an eagle stole one of her gilded sandals and carried it off in the direction of Memphis. There it let it drop in the lap of the king, who was administering justice outdoors. First day of Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas (the second day is on the New Year's Day) This day at the Book of Days is so big I've had to post it in two parts. Click for the next big page of December 26 quotes and customs   1194 Frederick II (d. 1250), Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1532 Guilielmus Xylander (d. 1576), German classical scholar 1893 Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung; Mao Tse Tung; d. 1976), Chinese Communist dictator, greatest mass murderer in history (though some claim his communist ally, Josef Stalin). Figures of between 35 and 100 million murders are quoted for the Chinese Communist holocaust. Hollywood seems assiduously to have neglected, and determined to ignore, this fact, when one notes the ceaseless multitude of movies about Adolf Hitler's awful, but lesser, gruesome activities. People of goodwill and a little historical knowledge might well ask ask why this should be so. The lower figure for Mao's atrocities does not include the figure of 27 million who died as a direct result of Mao's deliberately engineered and misnamed 'Great Leap Forward' famine of 1959 - '63. 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The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake was an undersea earthquake of moment magnitude 8.9 that struck At least 280,000 people were killed by the resulting tsunamis, which were as high as 10 m (33 ft) in some locations. The earthquake came just three days after a magnitude 8.1 earthquake in a completely uninhabited region off Macquarie Island near Antarctica.  Source: Wikipedia The stock exchanges of Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand, the five countries in South-East Asia affected by the tsunami and that have stock exchanges, went into an orgy of celebration, for all the money that would enter those nations from the West. Tomorrow: Did Darwin convert to Christianity?  Main calendar | Yesterday | Tomorrow | Search 12 Days of Christmas (Politically Correct Style) On the 12th day of the Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival, my significant other gave to me: TWELVE males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming. 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