Some Christmas facts to tickle the mind and broaden the horizon
- In the Ukraine, if you find a spider web in the house on Christmas morning, it is believed to be a harbinger of good luck. Legend has it that there once lived a woman so poor that she could not afford Christmas decorations.
One Christmas morning, she awoke to find that spider had trimmed her children's tree with their webs. When the morning sun shone on them, the webs turned to silver and gold. An artificial spider and web are often included decorations on Ukrainian Christmas trees.
- The poinsettia is a traditional Christmas flower. In Mexico (its birth place), the poinsettia is known as the Flower of the Holy Night.
- Louis Prang, a Bavarian born lithographer who came to the USA from Germany in the 19th century, popularised prinred Christmas cards.
- In Sweden, a common Christmas decoration is the julbukk, a small figurine of a goat, usually made of straw.
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