THE FIRST CHRISTMAS
Quaint and curious are some of the old monkish stories about the first Christmas. One of the charming legends relates that at the moment of the Nativity everything and everybody stood still The birds paused for an instant in midair, rivers ceased for the time to flow— in short, all the movements of men and things everywhere were suspended for a brief space. The spells of witches and wizards suddenly became ineffectual —an idea which was no doubt at the root of Shakespeare's reference to Christmas time as being so holy'that then "no fairy takes, no witch hath-power to charm."
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Auckland Star, Volume 304, Issue 304, 23 December 1926, Page 1 (Supplement)
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103THE FIRST CHRISTMAS Auckland Star, Volume 304, Issue 304, 23 December 1926, Page 1 (Supplement)
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