Christmas and Christmas Lore: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Christmas and Christmas Lore, credited to Thomas G. Crippen, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Christmas and Christmas Lore by Thomas G. Crippen. Read in English by volunteer readers. For above forty years I have been a diligent collector of history, tradition, legend, custom, or folklore, whether from familiar or unfamiliar sources, relating to the festival of the Holy Nativity. Moreover, I have gathered copiously from scarce pamphlets of the 17th and 18th centuries, from old chapbooks, newspaper paragraphs, and magazine articles old and new, and from contact with rustics in several counties. The fruits of my gathering are briefly summarized in the following pages, in the hope that they may conduce to that "joy and pious mirth" wherewith we ought, all of us, to commemorate the best and greatest Gift of God to man. - Summary by from the Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Christmas and Christmas Lore
• Author credits: Thomas G. Crippen
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 56
• Listed recording duration: 7:23:42

Catalogue topics

• Europe
• Christmas
• England
• family
• holiday
• tradition
• holidays
• yule

Opening tracks: first 24 of 56

1. 01 - Preface and Introduction — 4:13
2. 02 - Origin of Christmas — 13:41
3. 03 - Coincident Festivals — 5:23
4. 04 - Names of Christmas — 3:07
5. 05 - Use of Evergreens — 3:45
6. 06 - Holly and Ivy — 8:16
7. 07 - Laurel, Rosemary, Fir, etc. — 4:55
8. 08 - Mistletoe — 10:53
9. 09 - Placing and Removing Evergreens — 5:18
10. 10 - Christmas Ghosts — 5:20
11. 11 - Christmas Tales — 8:19
12. 12 - Christmas Music - The Waits — 3:45
13. 13 - Old Christmas Hymns — 10:39
14. 14 - Christmas Carols — 6:53
15. 15 - Origin of Carols — 13:39
16. 16 - The Oldest English Carols — 11:45
17. 17 - Legendary, Mystical, and Modern Carols — 15:47
18. 18 - Use of Carols — 10:27
19. 19 - Church Observances - Advent — 4:47
20. 20 - Church Observances - Christmas Bells — 4:49
21. 21 - Church Observances - Midnight Mass — 6:23
22. 22 - Nativity Plays — 9:27
23. 23 - The Praesepio — 7:23
24. 24 - Cradle-Rocking: The Posada, etc. — 6:53

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