Alex Wright

Now that's a toast

December 7, 2005

Leslie Harpold's Advent calendar answers the question on everyone's mind this season, "What's a Wassail"?

Wassailing is the custom of honoring one's livestock and crops during the Christmas season in hope that this salute will increase yield in the coming year. Toasts are drunk to corn, cows, and fruit trees. Celebratory fires are lit in fields and cider drunk in barns and orchards while men shoot guns into the air to scare off evil spirits. (via sippey)

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