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Anthropology

wnylib

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2. According to Wikipedia, you might be right.

Reply to Wicked Blue (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 18, 2022, 11:05 PM

Oct 2022

The Yule Log, associated with Christmas today, was a Pagan custom focused on the passing of the winter solstice. We associate it with the UK, but similar customs existed in other parts of Europe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_log

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Sounds like the forerunner of the Yule Log Wicked Blue Oct 2022 #1

According to Wikipedia, you might be right. wnylib Oct 2022 #2