The Book of Christmas: The Customs, Ceremonies, Traditions, Superstitions and Fun of the Season (Illustrated)

Very informative book on the history of Christmas. The authors describes in detail about how modern day traditions came to fruition. This book is for the reader who wants to know in depth about how Christmas came to be and how customs from hundreds of years still survive today.

Some of the topics that the book talks about:

1. Celebration of Jesus

2. Origination of 12 Days of Christmas

3. Father Christmas, the guy before Santa Clause

4. Presents were not always given on Christmas Day

5. Various Christmas games that were played in the past

6. The history of the mistletoe kiss