Where Your Favorite Holiday Customs Originated

Where do you think the traditions you love to celebrate came from? Here is a history of holiday traditions!

The origin of Thanksgiving is generally associated with the Pilgrims. When the Pilgrims arrived in the Americas, the Native Americans helped them survive by showing them what crops to plant. A year later, the Pilgrims celebrated their bountiful harvest by preparing a huge feast, which lead to the tradition of Thanksgiving dinner.

The turkey is a native of North America and so may have been one of the main dishes, giving rise to the traditional turkey dinner. MagicKitchen.com can provide you with the traditional turkey dinner, or send it to people who can’t be home for it this year.

Christmas trees may have originated with St. Boniface, who instituted the evergreen as a representation of eternal life. Martin Luther began the tradition of putting lights on the tree, using candles to light the tree. Many of our most valued holidays began as simple affairs, designed to bring a little light into a dark world.

When Christmas lights became electric, they started being used outside, on trees and walkways and houses. By the mid-20th century, it became customary to display strings of electric lights as Christmas decoration detached from the Christmas tree itself, along streets and buildings. In the United States, it became popular to outline private homes with such Christmas lights in tract housing beginning in the 1960s. By the late 20th century, the custom had also been adopted in non-western countries, notably in Japan.(Source: Wikipedia)

Advent calendars started in Germany in the late 1800’s, spreading around the world in popularity. WWII stopped the tradition in its tracks due to the ban on using cardboard, but a man named Richard Selmer started printing them again.

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