Christmas spider

[BamaFan121s]

The pickle is a German tradition. (Obviously I'm German, sooo....) Traditionaly this pickle (mine is glass, don't know if real ones were ever used) is the last ornament hung on the tree, the child who finds it gets a special prize. (I only have one child, so she has to 'beat' my husband...I found it before my sis this year at Mom's ) In our case, my kid got some Dairy Queen Chapsticks.

I've actually heard 2 stories as to 'why'...one about 2 boys on their way home for Christmas, a mean inn keeper put them in a pickle barrel and St. Nick saved them....

My German aunt who is from Hamburg said that they hung it on the tree to symbolize something about a harvest or something....I don't know...she is 95 and 'Oy Vey' not making much sense these days.

I've heard before that it was all commercial, but from what I have been told by people who are actually FROM Germany....it's a dying tradition that was practiced mainly in Eastern Germany, but that it wasn't made up.

Anyways....maybe not the most exciting tradition.... I am quite shocked to find out that EVERYONE doesn't hang a pickle on their tree...makes perfect sense to me...

[OLIVIA_KARHIS]

Originally Posted by BamaFan121s

The pickle is a German tradition. (Obviously I'm German, sooo....) Traditionaly this pickle (mine is glass, don't know if real ones were ever used) is the last ornament hung on the tree, the child who finds it gets a special prize. (I only have one child, so she has to 'beat' my husband...I found it before my sis this year at Mom's ) In our case, my kid got some Dairy Queen Chapsticks.

I've actually heard 2 stories as to 'why'...one about 2 boys on their way home for Christmas, a mean inn keeper put them in a pickle barrel and St. Nick saved them....

My German aunt who is from Hamburg said that they hung it on the tree to symbolize something about a harvest or something....I don't know...she is 95 and 'Oy Vey' not making much sense these days.

I've heard before that it was all commercial, but from what I have been told by people who are actually FROM Germany....it's a dying tradition that was practiced mainly in Eastern Germany, but that it wasn't made up.

Anyways....maybe not the most exciting tradition.... I am quite shocked to find out that EVERYONE doesn't hang a pickle on their tree...makes perfect sense to me...

In Old World Germany, the last decoration placed on the Christmas Tree was
always a pickle. It was carefully hidden deep in the boughs of the tree.
Legend has it that the observant child who found it on Christmas Day
was blessed with a year of good fortune and a special gift.

[daisy mae06]

Originally Posted by Marcellacml

oh is that the spider that crawled onto the ceiling when we put the tree up?

LO Now I have to redo my make up I laughed so hard i cryed LOL

[Tiggerwit]

Originally Posted by OLIVIA_KARHIS

Oh ok.. I will look... I will try to go this weekend. If none the less I can ask the glass maker if he can make one. If he is here this yrs...I have not seen him... Last yr I had him make a sea horse and it turns out really good.

I'll keep my eye out for one, for you.

Thanks!! They are usually more of a bead thing. I actually found a kit on line last night where I could make one if I had to.

[Marcellacml]

Originally Posted by daisy mae06

LO Now I have to redo my make up I laughed so hard i cryed LOL

lol whats so funny?? I was serious we got a real tree and when we put it up on the stand this black spider just crawled up onto the ceiling.

[ARCHIE]

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Christmas spider and Christmas pickle! I printed them both to read to my granddaughter. We love new Christmas stories.


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