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Feast, Christmas tree
Description of this motif: The church has celebrated Christmas since the 4th century, at the same as and replacing the former roman solstice ceremony. This history of Christmas plays no significant role in the context of Hans Christian Andersen, where modern customs are described, as for example in "The Fir Tree" and "The Little Match Girl", and where the Christian story about the birth of Jesus (Luke 2) is the feast's religious core.
Overview
The tales are sorted by year. The leading numbers refer to the number of occurrences of the motif in the respective texts.
- 2 The Fir Tree (1844)
- 1 Holger Danske (1845)
- 2 The Little Match Girl (1845)
- 1 The Story of the Year (1852)
- 1 The Goblin and the Grocer (1852)
- 1 Under The Willow Tree (1852)
- 1 The Old Oak Tree's Last Dream (1858)
- 1 The Girl Who Trod on the Loaf (1859)
- 1 Moving Day (1860)
- 1 The Bishop of Börglum and his Men (1861)
- 1 Twelve by the Mail (1861)
- 1 The Ice Maiden (1861)
- 1 The Will-o'-the-Wisps Are in Town (1865)
- 1 Godfather's Picture Book (1868)
- 1 Danish Popular Legends (1870)
- 1 The Gardener and the Noble Family (1872)
- 2 What Old Johanne Told (1872)
- 1 The Cripple (1872)