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The Yule log began as an ancient tradition dating back to the Druids. It was usually a huge oak trunk that would burn all through the midwinter's night of the winter solstice. The fire symbolized the coming of warmer, sunnier days. Each year the log was lit with an unburned splinter from the last year's Yule log to symbolize the continuity of the seasons.

 

It was also believed that the Yule log brought protection and good luck to those who burned it. Later, for some, the burning of the Yule log came to symbolize the light of Heaven.




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