Merry, Happy Kissing Under Mistletoe on Christmas Day!
Christmas is one of our favorite holidays of the year. According to Christmas lore, the weather on Christmas foretells the weather for the coming year. If windy on Christmas, trees will bring much fruit; if there is ice on trees on Christmas day, there will be clover tall enough to cut by Easter. Then, do you know about mistletoe? How about the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe and how that came about? Why don’t you fill in the blanks given below to complete the fascinating mistletoe folklore? In an old Norse legend, Frigga, the goddess of 1.______________, had a son named Balder who was the god of 2. _______________ and light. To protect him, Frigga demanded that all creatures -and even inanimate objects – swear an oath not to harm him, but she forgot to include mistletoe. Loki, god of 3. __________ and destruction, learned of this and made an arrow and guided it to kill Balder. The death of Balder meant the death of sunlight, which explains the long winter night in t...