History of Christmas Traditions (Just for Fun)

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  1. 2. one of the most famous Christmas Carols, sung in Austria in 1818 (Stille Nacht)
  2. 3. the Germanic "counter santa," evil being that takes away bad children
  3. 6. for Christians, Christmas is a celebration of the birth of _______ _________
  4. 9. German for "fir tree" but applied to Christmas Trees
  5. 11. this gift giving saint took his final US form from Thomas Nast...a newspaper illustrator
  6. 15. the English author famous for the story "Christmas Carol" that highlighted Victorian England Christmas
  7. 16. the first eggnog was made in consumed in this Virginia settlement in the early 1600s
Down
  1. 1. this group of 17th century (1600s) Christians in England and America banned the holiday as they thought the celebrations distracted from true religious devotion to Christ
  2. 4. the Roman festival in December that honored and indulged children
  3. 5. the tradition of the Christmas Tree was originally from the country of __________
  4. 7. the Roman festival honoring "Saturn" and harvests in December
  5. 8. shake it and it snows, we think it was originally invented in Austria in the late 1800s
  6. 10. this reindeer was the product of clever shopping mall marketing in the early 1900s
  7. 12. many of our traditions with greenery comes from the Scandinavian celebration of _____
  8. 13. these people (who emigrated to New England) called St. Nicholas "Sinter Klaas," thus we get our Santa Claus
  9. 14. Christmas was declared this kind of holiday in 1870 in the United States
  10. 17. the saint that "Santa" is based off of