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To: bluejeans who wrote (161)	12/5/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (1) of 1982

My kid has a Christmas book that explains Christmas around the world. I will retype some of them (until I get tired of doing it). To start SPAIN Gift-giving has never been as important in Spain as in other countries. The Nativities (Nacimiento) at home and church observances are the most important rituals. However, children do put their shoes, filled with carrots and hay, outside on Epiphany Eve, to refresh the camels of the Three Kings on their way to Bethlehem. They hope Balthasar the Black King will leave gifts in their shoes. Sometimes children's faces would be blackened with charcoal at night, and in the morning, they would hurry to look in the mirror to see whether King Balthasar had stopped to kiss them, before continuing his journey to Bethlehem. In some parts of Spain candles are placed on the edges of roofs and window sills, symbolic, of the stars that shone over Bethlehem when the Holy Infant was born, and carolers with candles go through the towns singing. The Nativity creche is the central attraction in the home, adults and children sing carols and dance around it to the music of guitars and tambourines every evening of Christmas week.

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