The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay
eBook - ePub

The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay

Scotland's Festive Traditions

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eBook - ePub

The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay

Scotland's Festive Traditions

About this book

From Celtic druids and Viking Yule to the outright banning of Christmas for 400 years, The Broons, first footing and the Loony Dook, this is a joyous miscellany that showcases the creative, elaborate and sometimes downright bizarre aspects of Scottish Christmas and New Year, from the ancient past to the more recent present. It includes different local traditions, from those practised in the Borders all the way to the islands of Orkney and Shetland, as well as the nationwide pastimes enjoyed by everyone.

The book is packed with tradition, lore and legend, as well as poems, stories, carols, recipes, history, jokes and fun facts. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and black and white photographs.

Best enjoyed in front of an open fire with a glass of whisky and a black bun.

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Information

Publisher
Birlinn
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781788857925

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Scottish Festive Timeline
  6. Introduction
  7. Yule
  8. Trows
  9. Sowans
  10. Bringing Greenery into the Home
  11. Burning a Rowan Twig
  12. ā€˜Winter-time’ by Robert Louis Stevenson
  13. Christmas Fact #1: Reindeer
  14. Crom Dubh na Nollaig
  15. Playing Tricks
  16. The Christmas Tree on the Mound
  17. ā€˜The Thirteen Days of Yule’
  18. Yule Bread
  19. Working
  20. Celebrating Christmas in January
  21. No Christmas Tree
  22. The First Christmas Card
  23. Irn Bru Christmas Adverts
  24. Whipkull
  25. Christmas Fact #2: Department store Santas
  26. The First Selfie Christmas Card
  27. Artificial Christmas Trees
  28. The Yule Beggar
  29. Christmas Fact #3: Robert Louis Stevenson gave away his birthday
  30. Fortune Telling
  31. The Broons and Oor Wullie Annuals
  32. ā€˜How I’ll Decorate My Tree’ by Liz Lochhead
  33. Yule Log
  34. Christmas Fact #4: Sir Alex Ferguson Christmas trees
  35. ā€˜Child in the Manger’
  36. Football
  37. A White Christmas
  38. Christmas Fact #5: King’s Christmas speech
  39. Cock-A-Leekie Soup
  40. Christmas Fact #6: Brussels sprouts
  41. Words for Snow
  42. The Kirkwall Ba’ Game
  43. ā€˜O Come All Ye Faithful’
  44. Sweetie Scone Day
  45. Christmas Fact #7: Flannan Isles Lighthouse
  46. Cloutie Dumpling
  47. Rugby
  48. Robbie Anderson and the Trows
  49. Redding the House
  50. Hogmanay
  51. ā€˜Winter’ by Alexander McCall Smith
  52. Hogmanay Santa Claus
  53. Petticoat Tails Shortbread
  54. Burning the Cailleach
  55. Guising
  56. ā€˜Rise Up Guid Wife’
  57. The Stromness Log Pull
  58. Stonehaven Fireballs
  59. ā€˜Deck the Halls’
  60. The Biggar Bonfire
  61. The Comrie Flambeaux
  62. Black Bun
  63. Christmas Fact #8: Edinburgh’s Hogmanay fireworks
  64. Street Parties
  65. The Paraffin Lamp
  66. First-Footing
  67. Dressed Herring
  68. ā€˜Open the Door’ by William Soutar
  69. New Year’s Day Steak Pie
  70. New Year’s Day Shinty
  71. Loony Dook
  72. Saining
  73. Burning the Clavie
  74. Stovies
  75. Up Helly Aa
  76. Handsel Monday
  77. Tipsy Laird Trifle
  78. Mary, Queen of Scots had the worst Christmas luck
  79. Christmas Fact #9: Burke and Hare
  80. Nettle Burning
  81. ā€˜Montrose John and the Christmas Tree’
  82. Fordyce Mortar Stane
  83. Drinking Alcohol
  84. The Man Who Kicked the Bone at Hogmanay
  85. Christmas Fact #10: Whale meat
  86. ā€˜Auld Lang Syne’ by Robert Burns
  87. Acknowledgements