Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 292, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1910 — Christmas Superstitions. [ARTICLE]

Christmas Superstitions.

There are many Christmas superstitions. long held as articles of faith, that are to be recalled. Among these are the beliefs that oxen kneel in their stalls at midnight ou Christmas eve in adoration of the Nativity aud for one hour pave tbe power of speech. For that one hour, too, the lost spirits have rest. Judas sleeps, Herod ceases to clank his chains, tbe daughter of Herodias may pause In the dance, in which sb# is condemned to spin forever, and Pilate’s ghost ceases its wanderings on Mount Pilatus. it used to be believed, too, that the sound of church bells could be heard wherever ■ church had stood, though no trace remain, and that on that pregnant night one sleeping in a manger would see his future tn a vislo .