Sounds interesting, I will try to find a German synchro somewhere...
Until then I will be watching "Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel" with my daughter.That's the most iconic traditional German Christmas watch.It's an interpretation of Cinderella.
Sounds pretty similar to the German traditions surrounding it that I know of.Except of the colours and the center candle, which sounds like a nice extra touch!
In our family we usually wait until Sunday evening in the dark to light it, while singing some Christmas songs.I am also not very religious, but still love it, same with the advent calendars!
Did you also have some ritual around lighting the cancles?Where I come from, the family typically gathers together in the evening, lights the candles in the dark and sings a few traditional Christmas songs.
Funny thing: we are currently having not a traditional Advent Wreath at home, but a straight line of elks.And NO, it is not from Ikea, but hand-made by a local charity employing hadicapped people...But might perhaps have gotten its inspiration from you guys up there?
Invented by the protestants to spite the catholics and the cult they were following around their saints (including St. Nikolaus, which became the blueprint for Santa Claus), it later was somehow adopted by the catholics.
Surprisingly, Wikipedia tells me that it is also a thing outside of Germany:
The Christkind (German for 'Christ-child'; pronounced [ˈkʁɪstˌkɪnt] ⓘ), also called Christkindl, is the traditional Christmas gift-bringer in Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Southern Germany and Western Germany, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the eastern part of Belgium, Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, parts of northeastern France, Upper Silesia in Poland, parts of Latin America, in certain areas of southern Brazil, and in the Acadiana region of Louisiana.
Makes sense, given that Lithuania directly borders Kaliningrad, which has been part of Germany as East Prussia until the end of WWII.I guess that there has been a lot of cultural exchange going on until then.
Sounds interesting, I will try to find a German synchro somewhere...
Until then I will be watching "Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel" with my daughter.That's the most iconic traditional German Christmas watch.It's an interpretation of Cinderella.