The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . y the wag ofthe neighborhood, and entered the house at thedoor. In his basket he carried apples, nuts,cakes and sometimes candy. These he threwupon the floor, and when the half-scaredyoungsters went to pick them up he wouldsometimes lay to with his stick, making thempromise to be good and obedient children. Thewriter remembers one case in which a childwas frightened into St. Vituss dance by aBelznickels performances. Hanging up stoc
The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants . y the wag ofthe neighborhood, and entered the house at thedoor. In his basket he carried apples, nuts,cakes and sometimes candy. These he threwupon the floor, and when the half-scaredyoungsters went to pick them up he wouldsometimes lay to with his stick, making thempromise to be good and obedient children. Thewriter remembers one case in which a childwas frightened into St. Vituss dance by aBelznickels performances. Hanging up stockings for Santa Clans to fill,making expensive presents and lighting upelaborately laden Christinas trees are modeminnovations and were unknown to the childrenof the first half of the nineteenth century. . A mild, snowless Christmas was looked uponas unfavorable, as it was feared it would befollowed by a late, cold and unhealtliy the sayings : A green Christmas bringsa white Easter, and A green Christmasmakes a full (or fat) graveyard. The Chrischtkindle at Its BestIn a leiigtliy chapter on The Pennsyl-vania-Germans : their History, Charac-. &M}l^0^
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