Holiday or Other Days' Origins

[Donna_Kx]

So, since it's Friday the 13th, I thought, why not start a thread for various days and their origins. Checking the ever great Wikipedia, we see that:

One source mentioned for the unlucky nature of the number "13" is a Norse myth about twelve gods having a dinner party in Valhalla. The trickster god Loki, who was not invited, arrived as the thirteenth guest, and arranged for Höðr to shoot Balder with a mistletoe-tipped arrow. Dossey: "Balder died, and the whole Earth got dark. The whole Earth mourned. It was a bad, unlucky day." This major event in Norse mythology caused the number 13 to be considered unlucky.

There's more to the article, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th , but the above was interesting enough to stop there. We watched the Vikings series by the History Channel and it was such an awesome series that the above quote spoke to me sort of. I recommend you watch it as well. Very informative, very well done, and we both were involved with the characters.

[Tiffany_Kx]

Thank you Donna for sharing the origins of Friday the 13th.  The Friday the 13th Horror movie franchise comes to mind more than anything else when I think of Friday the 13th.   Love that Loki was the 13th uninvited guest.  Loki is our favorite.

Boxing day, also known as St. Stephen's day, has interesting origins and is celebrated in England, Wales, Canada and Ireland.  Boxing day, is on December 26th, the day after Christmas.  It is thought to have originated from the tradition of advent presents given to the Anglican churches during the Christmas holiday and the church staff would open those presents the day after Christmas.  Boxing day was established in 1871.  Boxing Day was not always practiced since 1871, and was recently resurrected after scholars rediscovered it's importance in the early 1970's.