unsubscribe ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 3:04 AM Subject: ENG-LAN-BOLTON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 414 > > > When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to > which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. > Remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the > message subject to which you are replying. > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Merry Christmas (Jackie) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:21:38 +1000 > From: Jackie <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] Merry Christmas > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > MAY THE FESTIVE SEASON BE A SAFE AND HAPPY ONE FOR ALL. > MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE > > Jackie > > Christmas around the world: > > In Italy, children receive gifts from the good witch La Befana, old, > bent and dressed in black. La Befana was a widowed, childless woman > when the Three Kings passed on their way to see the Christ child. > When they asked her the way to Bethlehem she was busy cleaning and > sent them away. Realizing her mistake, she left to search for the > Baby Jesus. To this day she is still searching going from house to > house on Epiphany, January 6, leaving a gift for good children. > > Russian children await gifts from Babouska, a farmer's wife who > offered food and shelter to the Three Wise men on their journey to > Bethlehem, Baboushka declined their offer of travelling with them to > visit the Christ child. Realizing her error on the eve of Epiphany, > she tried unsuccessfully to find them, but handed the presents she > had intended for the infant Jesus to children she passed along the way. > > In Spain, Mexico, Puerto Rico and South America, the Three Kings or > Wise Men bring Christmas gifts to children, while in France children > eagerly await the coming of Father Christmas or Pere Noel who brings > their gifts. > > In some cultures, Saint Nicholas travels with an assistant. The old > bishop Sinterklass arrives in Holland on December 6 in his red > bishop's costume astride a white horse. In many port towns, he is > said to have sailed in on a ship from Spain. Beside him walks Black > Peter with a black sack and a book recording each Dutch child's > behavior through the year. Good children receive a gift from the > bishop while bad children may be carried away in Black Peter's sack. > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the ENG-LAN-BOLTON list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the ENG-LAN-BOLTON mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of ENG-LAN-BOLTON Digest, Vol 2, Issue 414 > **********************************************