[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: Question, pear trees, lords leaping, hens laying etc.
- From: "Peggy" <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx>, <lfossland@xxxxxxx>, <edwinx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:37:50 -0500
Nice story, and I've heard it before...but it isn't true........
check snopes: http://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/12days.asp
Peggy
----- Original Message -----
From: <Pinehillgsds@xxxxxxx>
> but here's the history of the song for those who are interested:
>
> Catholics in England during the period 1558 to 1829, when Parliament
> finally
> emancipated Catholics in England, were prohibited from ANY practice of
> their
> faith by law - private OR public. It was a crime to BE a Catholic.
> "The Twelve Days of Christmas" was written in England as one of the
> "catechism songs" to help young Catholics learn the tenets of their
> faith - a memory
> aid, when to be caught with anything in *writing* indicating adherence to
> the
> Catholic faith could not only get you imprisoned, it could get you hanged
> till almost dead then tortured or any number of gruesome deaths.
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