The Origin of the Christmas Tree
Long years ago, when the days were peering shinier and shorter, the night was long and longer, the people feared that the sun would cease to shine, they met under a great oak tree sacred to the god, Thor, and of war and thunder. A young man traveling through Germany, seeing altar under the trees, where the people offered sacrifices to the god, decided to spend his life teaching these folks. He spent many years planning and teaching, but he gave up their religion. The old winter's night toward the end of the year, he went into the forest where the people gathered to celebrate, and went about to offer sacrifices under the thunder oak. He believed to be guarded by the mighty Thor. At the foot of the thunder oak, a bright tree burned; in the center looked a young boy to be seen there. The crowd of heathen, Winifred began to sit down on the oak as he cut farther and farther into the heart of the tree, the crowd was headed for the stroke from Thor that would fill him. But he stopped away; the chips flew all around. A cackling sound was heard in the open branches, the tree groaned, and with a crash fell to the floor, split in four places.  Ces. 