Christmas Decorations, Twelfth Night and Candlemas

Are you too busy to take your Christmas decorations down? Are humans telling you it is unlucky to have your decorations up after twelfth night?

Well, i have the suitable solution for you. You could go away them up till Candlemas Eve (1st February) and inform all of us which you're following an age-old subculture.

As i have cited earlier than, it became traditional in Medieval and Tudor times for homes to be embellished with greenery, inclusive of laurel, holly, ivy and rosemary, at Christmas time however there has been no rush to take it down on 12th night time, rather it became left adorning the house till Candlemas Eve. Seventeenth century poet Robert Herrick wrote in his poem "rite Upon Candlemas Eve":

"Down with the rosemary, and so

Down with the bays and misletoe ;

Down with the holly, ivy, all,

Wherewith ye get dressed'd the Christmas hall :

That so the superstitious discover

nobody least branch there left behind :

For look, what number of leaves there be

left out, there (maids, trust to me)

so many goblins you shall see."

Of course, you currently need to take into account to take them down on 1st February otherwise you may have the ones goblins to deal with!

Word: Candlemas, which is well known on 2nd February, is likewise known as the dinner party of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin. It commemorates the day on which the Virgin Mary would have been purified after childbirth and might have presented her son on the temple in Jerusalem. It was also the day on which Church candles were blessed.