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yule log


The Yule Log, Yule Clog, or Christmas Block is a specially selected log burnt on a hearth around the period of Christmas in the Anglosphere. The origin of the folk custom is unclear. Numerous scholars have observed that, like other traditions associated with Yule (such as the Yule boar), the custom may ultimately derive from Germanic paganism. Similar folk practices are recorded in various areas of Europe.
==Origins==
According to the ''Encyclopedia of English Folklore'', the first "clear" references to the tradition appear in the 17th century, and thus it is unclear where or when the custom extends.〔Simpson and Roud (2003:402-403).〕
However, it has long been observed that the custom may have much earlier origins, possibly extending from or echoing customs observed in Germanic paganism. As early as 1725, Henry Bourne sought an origin for the Yule log in Anglo-Saxon paganism:

:Our Fore-Fathers, when the common Devious of ''Eve'' were over, and Night was come on, were wont to light up ''Candles'' of an uncommon Size, which were called ''Christmas-Candles'', and to lay a ''Log'' of Wood upon the Fire, which they termed a ''Yule-Clog'', or ''Christmas-Block''. These were to Illuminate the House, aud () turn the Night into Day; which custom, in some Measure, is still kept up in the Northern Parts. It hath, in all probability, been derived from the ''Saxons''. For ''Bede'' tells us, That () this very Night was observed in this Land before, by the ''Heathen Saxons''. They began, says he, their Year on the Eight of the Calends of ''January'', which is now our ''Christmas-Day'': And the very Night before, which is now Holy to us, was by them called ''Mædrenack'', or the ''Night of the Mothers'' … The ''Yule-Clog'' therefore hath probably been a Part of those Ceremonies which were perform'd that Night's Ceremonies. It seems to have been used, as an Emblem of the return of the ''Sun'', and the lengthening of the Days. For as both ''December'' and ''January'' were called ''Guili'' or ''Yule'', upon Account of the Sun's Returning, and the Increase of the Days; so, I am apt to believe, the Log has had the Name of the ''Yule-Log'', from its being burnt as an Emblem of the returning Sun, and the Increase of its Light and Heat. This was probably the Reason of the custom among the ''Heathen Saxons''; but I cannot think the Observation of it was continued for the same Reason, after Christianity was embraced. …"〔Bourne (1740:155-162).〕

More recently, G. R. Willey (1983) says:

:Communal bonfires with feasting and jollification have a pagan root—ritual bonfires at the beginning of November once signaled the start of another year and the onset of winter. Their subsequent incorporation into the Christian calendar, to become part and parcel of the festival of Christmas, and, later, their association with the New Year (January 1st) is an intriguing story. Many, if not all, of the various customs and traditions at one time extensively witnessed at Christmas and the 'old' New Year stem from this common source, e.g. Twelfth Night bonfires, including 'Old Meg' from Worcestershire and burning the bush from Herefordshire, first footing, etc. … Any traces of primitive ritual such as scattering of burnt ashes or embers as an omen of fertilisation or purification have long since disappeared.〔Wiley (1983:42).〕

The events of Yule are generally held to have centred on Midwinter (although specific dating is a matter of debate), and feasting, drinking, and sacrifice (''blót'') were involved. Scholar Rudolf Simek comments that the pagan Yule feast "had a pronounced religious character" and comments that "it is uncertain whether the Germanic Yule feast still had a function in the cult of the dead and in the veneration of the ancestors, a function which the mid-winter sacrifice certainly held for the West European Stone and Bronze Ages." The traditions of the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar (''Sonargöltr'') still reflected in the Christmas ham, Yule singing, and others stem from Yule customs, and customs which Simek takes as "indicat() the significance of the feast in pre-Christian times."〔Simek (2007:379–380).〕

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