Source: Atlas Obscura
For hundreds of years, people living in southern England have sung to their apple trees in the middle of winter. Fans of Christmas songs are likely already familiar with the word wassail, but might not know that the term, now a synonym for “caroling,” once meant singing to encourage a good harvest of apples and to dispel evil spirits.
Though scholars are unsure if wassailing has roots in ancient tradition or was simply meant as an…
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