Omnipresent during the season, Christmas balls evolved from a Roman Catholicsymbol: the apple. But who had the idea of hanging apples from a tree? During the Middle Ages, Central Europe's population still worshiped the Nordic gods.Saint Boniface wasa German missionary living in the area. Legend has it that he adopted thevillagers'tradition of decorating ashes and oaks during the first weeks […]
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