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- 4. A personal promise to do something in the new year.
- 5. A West-African winter celebration.
- 6. The day after Christmas.
- 7. Who stole Christmas.
- 8. A large log burned in the hearth of the house. It is a symbol of prosperity and luck. The tradition dates back to the iron age.
- 10. Gold or silver wrapped chocolate, representing the original tradition of an end of year tip to workers.
- 14. Originated from the early medieval" British drink called posset
- 15. Winters blanket.
- 17. A “good-luck” vegetable that is consumed on New Year’s Day
- 19. Duration of Chanukah celebrations.
- 20. The world’s leading exporter of Christmas trees.
- 21. The country where people release a flower-filled boat to the ocean goddess, Lemanja.
- 22. The ninth and youngest of Santa Claus's reindeer.
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- 1. A plant the Aztec people use the plant to produce red dye and as an antipyretic medication. It’s association with Christmas began in 16th-century Mexico.
- 2. The title and key phrase of a 1788 Scottish poem by Robert Burns, typically sung on New Year’s Eve.
- 3. A beverage of hot mulled cider, drunk traditionally as an integral part of a Medieval Yuletide English drinking ritual intended to ensure a good cider apple harvest the following year.
- 5. A widely popular modernized incarnation of the traditional Spirit of Christmas, originating from Austria, and Germany.
- 9. The devilish companion of St. Nicholas, that punishes misbehaving children at Christmastime. Believed to have originated in Alpine areas of Europe.
- 11. The Chinese New Year coincides with this calendar.
- 12. A tradition Civilizations around the world have been celebrating the start of each new year for at least four millennia.
- 13. Small pieces of colored paper or streamers.
- 16. The traditional winter holiday for Japan.
- 18. What you are supposed to spread during the holidays.