In this video I bring you 10 Christmas traditions that actually have a pagan origin. We will investigate where they come from and how we can include them in our solstice celebrations. You can find out more in my little book Winter Solstice, it is available in print or digital format: https://lavozdelbosque.bigcartel.com/ If you want to support my content, on my patreon you have my articles and podcasts on traditional witchcraft in exchange for only 3 euros: / alannakaldtregn Video bibliography: Amades, Joan. Costumari Català: el curs de l'any. Vol. I, hivern. Barcelona: Salvat Editores, 1953. ———. Costumari Català: el curs de l'any. Vol. V, tardor. Barcelona: Salvat Editores, 1953. ———. The house. Vol. 37. Archive of popular traditions. Barcelona, ​​1982. Barceló Quintal, Raquel Ofelia. «A Long-Term History. Christmas». Xihmai II, no 4 (nd). Castell Granados, Pau. Origins and evolution of the witch hunt in Catalonia (15th-16th centuries). Barcelona: University of Barcelona, ​​2013. Eliade, Mircea, and Mircea Eliade. Shamanism and the archaic techniques of ecstasy. 2nd ed., 5th reprint. Section of anthropological works. Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1994. Espino, Israel J. People of death and other supernatural processions. 1st ed. History. Córdoba: Editorial Almuzara, 2022. Galvez, Javier. Roman Festivals: The Ancient Pagan Festivals in the Capital of the Empire. 1st ed. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 2009. Ginzburg, Carlo. Historia nocturna. Barcelona: Ediciones Península, 2003. Grimal, Pierre, and Charles Picard. Dictionary of Greek and Roman mythology. Translated by Francisco Payarols. Barcelona: Paidós, 2020. Lecouteux, Claude. Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices. Translated by Jon E. Graham. First US edition. Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 2015. ———. The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices. Rochester, Vermont: Inner traditions, 2013. Machado, Antonio. Library of Spanish Popular Traditions. Vol. I. Library of Spanish Popular Traditions. Madrid, 1884. Marcos Celestino, Mónica. «The archaic Roman Ceres and its historical development». Humanistic Studies. Philology, no. 22 (2000): 137-60. Rodríguez, Pilar. «Christmas in Altoaragón». Argensola: Journal of Social Sciences of the Institute of Altoaragon Studies, no. 90 (1980): 407-24. Our Troth. 3rd edition. Philadelphia, PA: The Troth, 2020. Rodríguez, Estrella. «Christmas through time». The Nativity: art, religiosity and popular traditions, 2009, 825-46. Ruiz de Elvira Prieto, Antonio. «Problems of the Roman calendar». Notebooks of Classical Philology, no. 11 (1976): 9-52. Sánchez Domingo, Rafael. «Historical-legal origin of the Christmas bonus. From the Roman “strenna” to salary in kind». The Nativity: art, religiosity and popular traditions, 2009, 715-30. Solla, Carlos. «Amulets, talismans and stones of peace. Objects of power in traditional Galiza. Amulets and relics. Uses and creeds. Minutes of the VII Oral Tradition Literature Day (sf): 69-124