Little Known Christmas Traditions

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Time to BS a bit of festive cheer. Make up a wacky festive tradition, like this:

On the remote Scottish island of Whassit it is customary to dip both ears of a donkey in the gravy before serving it with Christmas lunch.

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In Tennessee we have an annual reindeer hunt on Christmas Eve. It is, however, considered very unsporting to shoot them off the roof.
 

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In New Brunswick, Canada, we roll our Grandmas in icing sugar on Christmas Eve and string them side by side from the train bridge. At midnight, we throw the spotlights on them and they glow like magical twinkly Christmas lights.
 

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Instead of cookies, we leave cigarettes and whiskey for Santa in Marlboro Country. :Shrug:
 

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The people of Gretna fashion a twenty-foot baby Jesus from cabbages.
 

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Growing up in Iowa, we decorated elderly cows with festive Christmas lights. They don't move very fast.
 

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My family just made up this tradition:

The day before Christmas Eve is Christmas Adam. We'll have ribs at supper.
 

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The people of Gretna fashion a twenty-foot baby Jesus from cabbages.

I cannot fathom the amount of gas this expels on Boxing Day. They do eat the baby jesus, don't they?
 

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I cannot fathom the amount of gas this expels on Boxing Day. They do eat the baby jesus, don't they?
Indeed they do and the gas expelled is used to fuel nearby windfarms for several months!

In Cowdenbeath sheep are dressed up as the Three Wise Men and beaten with long polystyrene poles.
 

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In parts of Govan people spit-roast a live haggis until it sings the 12 Days of Christmas.
 

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We wrap Christmas presents in tobacco leaves here in Marlboro Country. ;)