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| x Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer |
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a character created in a story and song by the same name. The story was created by Robert L. May in 1939 as part of his employment with Montgomery Ward.
The story is owned by The Rudolph Company, L.P. and has been...
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| x Santa Claus |
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Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle or simply "Santa", is the legendary and mythical figure who, in many Western cultures, brings gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight...
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In English folklore, Jack Frost appears as an elfish creature who personifies crisp, cold, winter weather; a variant of Father Winter (also known as "Old Man Winter"). Some believe this representation originated in Germanic folklore specifically in...
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| x Ghost of Christmas Past |
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The Ghost of Christmas Past is a character in the well-known work of the English novelist Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
The Ghost of Christmas Past was the first of the three spirits (after the visitation by Jacob Marley) that haunted the...
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| x Ghost of Christmas Present |
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The Ghost of Christmas Present is a character in one of the best-known works of the English novelist Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. The Spirit closely resembles Father Christmas from local folklore.
The Ghost of Christmas Present was the second...
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| x Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come |
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The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, or the Ghost of Christmas Future, is a fictional character in English novelist Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. The Ghost never speaks or identifies himself by name, but Scrooge addresses him as "The Ghost of...
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| x The Grinch |
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The Grinch is a cartoon character created by Dr. Seuss. He first appeared in the 1957 children's book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. This was followed in 1966 by a popular television special also titled How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, produced...
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| x Ebenezer Scrooge |
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Ebenezer Scrooge is the main character in Charles Dickens' 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is a cold-hearted, tight fisted, greedy man, who despises Christmas and all things which engender happiness. A quote...
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| x Tiny Tim |
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Tiny Tim (real name "Timothy Cratchit") is a fictional character in the classic story A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. He is the son of Bob Cratchit. It is claimed that the character is based on the invalid son of a friend of Dickens who owned...
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| x Mrs. Claus |
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Mrs. Claus is the wife of Santa Claus. Unlike Santa Claus, however, she does not have a counterpart in folklore or mythology, but was the creation of American authors. She was popularized by poet Katharine Lee Bates in Bates' poem, "Goody Santa...
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| x Frosty the Snowman |
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"Frosty the Snowman" is a popular song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys in 1950. It was written after the success of Autry's recording of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"...
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| x Santa Claus |
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Santa Claus (also known as Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santy or simply Santa) is a folklore figure in various cultures who distributes gifts to children, normally on Christmas Eve. Each name is a variation of Saint...
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| x Jingle Belle |
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Jingle Belle is a cartoon character created by Paul Dini. She's Santa Claus' spoiled teen-age daughter. The stories depict Jingle's usually contentious relationship with her famous father.
Jing appears in a number of comic books, all written by Dini...
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| x Belsnickel |
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Belsnickel is the fur-clad Santa of the Palatinate (Pfalz) in northwestern Germany along the Rhine, the Saarland, and the Odenwald region of Baden-Württemberg.
In Pennsylvania Dutch communities, it is also a mythical being who visits children at...
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| x Biblical Magi |
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In Christian tradition the Magi (pronounced /ˈmeɪdʒaɪ/; Greek: μάγοι, magoi), also referred to as the (Three) Wise Men, (Three) Kings, or Kings from the East, are said to have visited Jesus after his birth, bearing gifts. They are mentioned only in...
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| x Mr. Bingle |
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Mr. Bingle is a fictional character, a snowman assistant to Santa Claus. Originating as a mascot of the Maison Blanche department store in New Orleans, Louisiana, the character was later marketed by Dillard's and remains part of the pop-culture of...
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| x Santa Claus' reindeer |
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Santa Claus's reindeer are a team of flying reindeer traditionally held to pull the sleigh of Santa Claus and help him deliver Christmas gifts. The commonly cited names of the reindeer are based on those used in the 1823 poem A Visit from St....
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| x Christmas tree |
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The Christmas tree is a decorated artificial or living tree, a popular tradition associated with the celebration of Christmas. Normally an evergreen coniferous tree that is brought into a home or used in the open, a Christmas tree is decorated with...
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The use of decorative, festive lighting during the Christmas holiday season is a long standing tradition in many Christian cultures, and has been adopted as a secular practice in a number of other non-Christian, or non-predominantly Christian,...
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| x Christmas stocking |
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A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that children hang on Christmas Eve so that Santa Claus can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins, or other small gifts when he arrives. These small items are often referred to as...
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| x Misa del Gallo |
Misa de Gallo is the Spanish phrase for Midnight mass, more literally translated as "Rooster's Mass".
It is said that the "Rooster's Mass" owes its name to the idea that a rooster would have been among the first to witness the birth of Jesus, and...
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| x Christmas carol |
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A Christmas carol (also called a noël) is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter season in general and which are traditionally sung in the period before Christmas and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
The...
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| x Secret Santa |
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Secret Santa is a Western holiday tradition in which members of a group are randomly assigned other members to whom they anonymously give a gift. Often practiced in workplaces, or amongst large families, participation in it is usually voluntary. It...
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Home Alone is a 1990 Christmas film written and produced by John Hughes and directed by Chris Columbus. The film features Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who is mistakenly left behind when his family flies to Paris for...
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| x The Santa Clause |
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The Santa Clause is a 1994 Christmas film released by both Walt Disney Pictures and Hollywood Pictures. The film stars Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, a father who finds himself contractually bound to become Santa Claus when he unintentionally puts on...
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| x The Muppet Christmas Carol |
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The Muppet Christmas Carol is the fourth feature film to star The Muppets, and the first produced after the death of Muppets creator Jim Henson. Released in 1992, it is one of many film adaptations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The movie...
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| x How the Grinch Stole Christmas! |
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, also known simply as The Grinch is a 2000 live-action film, based on the 1957 book and television special of the same name by Dr. Seuss. Due to additions made to the storyline so that it could be brought...
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Elf is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau, written by David Berenbaum and released in the United States on November 7, 2003.
It stars Will Ferrell as the film's central character "Buddy," with Ed Asner as Santa Claus, Bob...
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| x Nochebuena |
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Noche Buena, often translated as "Good Night", is a Spanish word referring to the night of Christmas Eve. Custom in Spain, Cuba, the Philippines and Latin America, the evening consists of a traditional dinner with family.
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| x Give Love on Christmas Day |
"Give Love on Christmas Day" was a Christmas classic soul original by Motown family quintet The Jackson 5. It was released to R&B; radio in 1970. The song was written by the famed label's songwriting-producing team, The Corporation.
The song is an...
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| x All I Want for Christmas Is You |
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"All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a song by American singer Mariah Carey and Walter Afanasieff, recorded for Carey's fifth album Merry Christmas (1994). Its protagonist declares that she does not care about Christmas presents or lights; all she...
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| x The Christmas Song |
“The Christmas Song” (1944), commonly referred to as “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire“ or “Merry Christmas to You”, is a classic Christmas song, written by vocalist Mel Tormé and Bob Wells. According to Tormé, the song was written during a...
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| x Deck the Halls |
"Deck the Halls" (original English title: "Deck the Hall") is a traditional Yuletide and New Years' carol. The "fa-la-la" refrains were probably originally played on the harp. The melody is Welsh and belongs to a winter carol, Nos Galan. In the...
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| x Hark! The Herald Angels Sing |
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is a Christmas hymn or carol written by Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley. It first appeared in Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739, under the topic of "Hymn for Christmas-Day". The original opening couplet was ...
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| x Joy to the World |
"Joy to the World" is a popular Christmas carol.
The scripture-based words are by Isaac Watts. The music was adapted and arranged by Lowell Mason from an older melody which was then believed to have originated from Handel , not least because the...
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| x O Holy Night |
"O Holy Night" ("Cantique de Noël") is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877), a wine merchant and poet. Cappeau was asked by a...
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| x O Little Town of Bethlehem |
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"O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol.
Phillips Brooks (1835-1893), an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, was inspired when he was visiting the little town of Bethlehem in 1865. Three years...
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| x Silent Night |
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"Silent Night" (German: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht) is a popular Christmas carol. The original lyrics of the song Stille Nacht were written in German by the Austrian priest Father Josef Mohr and the melody was composed by the Austrian headmaster...
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| x The Twelve Days of Christmas |
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"The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol (Roud # 68) which enumerates a series of increasingly grandiose gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas, ultimately leaving the singer with 364 gifts from her "true love."...
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| x We Wish You a Merry Christmas |
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas" is a popular secular sixteenth-century English carol from the West Country of England . The origin of this Christmas carol lies in the English tradition where wealthy people of the community gave Christmas treats to...
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| x What Child Is This? |
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"What Child Is This?" is a popular Christmas carol that was written in 1865. At the age of twenty-nine, writer William Chatterton Dix was struck with a sudden near-fatal illness and confined to bedrest for several months, during which he went into a...
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| x Boar's Head Carol |
The Boar's Head Carol is a macaronic 15th century English Christmas carol that describes the ancient tradition of sacrificing a boar and presenting its head at a Yuletide feast. Of the several extant versions of the carol, the one most usually...
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| x Do You Hear What I Hear? |
"Do You Hear What I Hear?" is a Christmas song written in October 1962 with lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne Baker. The pair were married at the time, and wrote it as a plea for peace during the Cuban Missile Crisis. It has sold tens...
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| x Gabriel's Message |
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Gabriel's Message or The angel Gabriel from heaven came (Basque: Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen) is a Basque Christmas folk carol about the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary. It quotes the biblical account of that event (Luke, Chapter 1, verses 26-38)...
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| x Mary, Did You Know? |
Mary, Did You Know? is a Christmas song with lyrics written by Mark Lowry in 1984 and music written by Buddy Greene six years later.
The song has been recorded by many diverse artists, including Christopher Parkening & Kathleen Battle, Gary Chapman,...
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| x Mary's Boy Child |
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"Mary's Boy Child" is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston.
It was first recorded by Harry Belafonte in 1956, for his album An Evening with Belafonte. An edited version was subsequently released as a single on RCA Victor 20-6735 (78rpm)...
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| x Of the Father's Love Begotten |
Of the Father's Heart Begotten or alternately known as Of the Father's Love Begotten is a Christmas carol. The text is by Roman poet Aurelius Prudentius, from his Liber Cathemerinon, hymn no. IX, beginning "Da puer plectrum," which includes the...
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| x Once In Royal David's City |
Once In Royal David's City is a Christmas carol, which was originally a poem written by Cecil Frances Alexander, who in 1848 married an Anglican clergyman, and in 1867, upon her husband's consecration, thereby became a bishop's wife.
Once In Royal...
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| x See, Amid The Winter's Snow |
"See, Amid The Winter's Snow", also known as "Hymn For Christmas Day", is a Christmas carol.
It was written by Edward Caswall (1814–1878), with music composed by Sir John Goss (1800–1880).
As "Hymn For Christmas Day", it featured in Christmas Carols...
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| x Quelle Est Cette Odeur Agréable? |
Quelle est cette odeur agréable? (in English, Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?) is a 17th century traditional French Christmas carol about the Nativity.
The carol is sometimes set to music written by John Gay for The Beggar's Opera in 1728....
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| x Adeste Fideles |
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"Adeste Fideles" is the name of a hymn tune attributed to John Francis Wade and the first line of the Latin text for which the tune was written. The text itself has unclear beginnings, and may have been written in the 13th century, though it has...
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| x Bóg się rodzi |
"Bóg się rodzi" (English: "God Is Being Born") is a Polish Christmas carol (Polish: kolęda), with lyrics written by Franciszek Karpiński in 1792. Its stately melody (the composer has not been established) is traditionally known to be a coronation...
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| x Pluguşorul |
Pluguşorul (pluguşor literally means "little plough" in Romanian, "-ul" being enclitic definite article) is a Romanian and Moldovan New Year's tradition and carol.
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| x Feliz Navidad |
Feliz Navidad is a Christmas song written in 1970 by the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano. With its simple Spanish chorus (the traditional Christmas/New Year greeting, "Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad" or "Merry Christmas,...
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| x Nu tändas tusen juleljus |
Nu tändas tusen juleljus, often called just Nu tändas, is a Christian traditional Swedish language Christmas song, written in 1898 by the Swedish song text writer Emmy Köhler (both text and melody). Translated into English, the title literally means...
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| x Angelus ad virginem |
Angelus ad Virginem (or its English title, Gabriel, From Heven King Was To The Maide Sende) was a popular medieval carol, whose text is a poetic version of the Hail Mary and the Annunciation to the Virgin Mary. Probably Franciscan in origin, it was...
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| x Bethlehem Down |
Bethlehem Down is a choral anthem or carol composed in 1927 by Anglo-Welsh composer Peter Warlock (1894–1930) (the pseudonym of Philip Arnold Heseltine) and set to a poem written by journalist and poet Bruce Blunt (1899–1957). It is a popular anthem...
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| x Corpus Christi Carol |
Corpus Christi Carol is a Middle or Early Modern English hymn (or carol), first found in a manuscript written around 1504 by an apprentice grocer named Richard Hill. The original writer of the carol remains anonymous.
The structure of the carol is...
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| x Joy to the World |
"Joy to the World! The Lord Will Come" is an adaptation of the popular Christmas carol, Joy to the World. It was included in A Collection of Sacred Hymns (Kirtland, Ohio), the first Latter Day Saint hymnal published in 1835 or 1836.
The adapted...
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| x Kasadya Ning Taknaa |
Kasadya Ning Taknaa is a Cebuano Christmas carol composed in 1933 by Vicente Rubi with lyrics by Mariano Vestil. Its famous counterpart is Ang Pasko Ay Sumapit, a modified version of the song written by Levi Celerio with lyrics in Tagalog (but not...
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