reminding people that the trope “hurr durr christmas is just saturnalia” is english protestant agitprop that was cooked up during the reformation to stomp on the catholics a bit is, shall we say, regularly entertaining but rarely fruitful.
> What masking and mumming? whereby robberies, whoredom, murder, and what not, is committed?
That’s a spicy Christmas… was there really more of that at Christmas at that time?
Ha, an appropriate topic, given the lockdown restrictions on Christmas which we just narrowly avoided in the UK.
What an appropriate username to submit this article :D.