The Legend of the Christmas Stocking

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The Legend of the Christmas Stocking
What’s behind the holiday tradition of hanging hosiery on the fireplace?
By Emily Spivack
smithsonian.com
December 14, 2012


Stockings have been an essential part of the Christmas tradition for centuries (except, briefly, in the mid-1800s, when the New York Times wrote that Christmas trees almost completely supplanted them as the tradition of choice).

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