Scottish Christmas Traditions (& Merry Christmas!)

[macwilkin]

We had the tradition that animals in the barns, especially horses, would kneel down at midnight on Christmas Eve in honour of the Christ Child, a notion I always found charming in the extreme even though I never quite believed it. I don't know that this is a particularly Scottish tradition, in fact in light of what has already been posted I guess it isn't, but British folks always talked up the kneeling thing big when we where children. Of course this couldn't be tested even by farm children because of the hazard of preventing a visit from Santa Claus....

Again, another Ozarks custom documented by Randolph's Ozark Magic & Folklore. Randolph credits the Ulster-Scots & other residents of the British Isles as the origins of Ozarks culture.

T.

[Lallans]

Again, another Ozarks custom documented by Randolph's Ozark Magic & Folklore. Randolph credits the Ulster-Scots & other residents of the British Isles as the origins of Ozarks culture.

T.

Score one for the home tradition. Really, what would the US have done without its Ulster Scots?

(Where I come from, that is known as 'leading with your chin.' )

[BoldHighlander]

Score one for the home tradition. Really, what would the US have done without its Ulster Scots?

(Where I come from, that is known as 'leading with your chin.' )

I for one wouldn't be here ...as the majority of my father's people were Ulster Scots (most of them, however, I can trace to the highlands rather than the usual border or English version :mrgreen.