A Message to the Magians

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Excerpt from A Message to the Magians: Studies Upon the Story of the Nativity Many legends and superstitions cluster about the scenes of the nativity. Some of the modern Christmas customs may be traced back, not to Judean hills, but to the Saturnalian and Bacchanalian feasts of ancient Rome, or to the religious rites and customs of barbaric tribes. The ancient Britains believed the horses and cattle and sheep and goats, whether stabled or at large, in field and upon mountainside, knelt with their faces toward the manger when the angelic choir sang its first carol. The Yule log, the Mistletoe, the "Lords of Misrule" find their origin in idolatrous worship. One writer declares that the modern custom of dressing the houses and the churches with evergreens and mistletoe probably dates back to the Druidical age, whose religious customs were in vogue long before history had any recorded pages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.