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In the spirit of Twelfth Night one of Ancient Origins Premium’s favorite storytellers Charles Christian, entertains with his Father’s Ghost Story: I may have mentioned before I am sufficiently ancient to recall the Christmastides of my youth. I grew up in the 1950s on the Yorkshire coast, in the town of Scarborough, when television was […]
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Traditions of Twelfth Night: Dismantling the Christmas Tree
January 7th, 2021 
Awake Goy Counting from December 25, using the Julian calendar , Twelfth Night – January 6 – takes place on the last night of the ‘ Twelve Days of Christmas’ , marking the coming of the Epiphany, celebrating the revelation (theophany) of God manifesting as Jesus Christ. Superstition also has it that this is traditionally the date to […]
The Twelfth Night
January 2nd, 2021 Awake Goy People attend Christmas celebrations outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Dec. 24, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Ammar Awad. As a child, I felt fortunate to have eight days of Hanukkah, whereas Christian children only had one day of Christmas. But then I learned that was not quite correct; […]
Twelfth Night
January 1st, 2021 Awake Goy January 1, 2021 by Jeremy Rosen Read on for article As a child, I liked to feel how fortunate I was to have eight days of Chanukah, whereas the non-Jews only had one day. But then I learned that was not quite correct, they had twelve. In theory at least. Jeremy Rosen One of Shakespeare’s […]
