Christmas Stories : What Makes Them So Popular

religious significance of the candy cones. Now the white and red J-shaped candies get always associated with Christmas and the Christian religion as ‘J’ stands for “Jesus”.

Many stories evolve round the helping spirit of Christmas. The little migrating birds got shelter from spruce, pine and juniper tree in the midst of frost and snow. The Frost King punished willow, oak and bird trees for their selfish attitude and rewarded the kind trees with green leaves for the whole year and this is the legend of Evergreen Trees.

The Christmas spirit is best felt in the legend on nutcracker. It is about the girl Clara and her magical mysterious nutcracker. There is a fight with the Evil and ultimately the Nutcracker Prince takes her to the magic land, the land of hope, beauty and fancy. The ballet of Alexander Drumas Pere has a positive ending in tune with the Christmas spirit- Clara wakes up on Christmas Day and finds herself surrounded by her family. It is the time to be with your closed ones.

Mostly the stories have child characters. Dickens’s A , Christmas Carols carry the secular spirit of a festival and ‘Toinette and the Elves’ by Susan Coolidge give us fascinating stories on the event. Some are directly related to the birth of Jesus and some were never a part of the event but later on some religious significance has been added to them to make them apt for the Christmas spirit.. So, what was once sacrilegious now it is a part of the religious custom to have candy cones on Christmas. The stories are perhaps the best tools to convey in a simple language

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