Mistletoe was known to the Druids as “all-heal.” They regarded it as an antidote to all diseases. A fiinger-ring made of the mistletoe was. worn in Sweden as a defence against'illness until.comparatively recent times. The keeping of Christmas was forbidden in England under the Commonwealth of 1644 and December 25 was ordered to be observed as a market day. The eating of plum pudding and mincepie was denounced as a heathen practice.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 98, 24 January 1928, Page 9
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72Untitled Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 98, 24 January 1928, Page 9
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