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I want to go wassailing/make wassail — “Since its practitioners were drunken adults, this type of wassailing was much more uneasy-making than Christmas caroling or even trick-or-treating. It is not hard to find reports of Christmas revelers in England and its colonies who did more than withhold blessings when greeted with tight fists. The brazen broke into the storerooms whose fruits they’d been denied; sometimes they even made themselves comfortable before their victim’s hearth before tucking into their plunder. There was a counterreaction, of course. English Puritans banned the celebration of Christmas in 1652, as their colonial counterparts would in 1659 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This was the original war on Christmas; you can see for yourself how it turned out.”
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I want to go wassailing/make wassail —

“Since its practitioners were drunken adults, this type of wassailing was much more uneasy-making than Christmas caroling or even trick-or-treating. It is not hard to find reports of Christmas revelers in England and its colonies who did more than withhold blessings when greeted with tight fists. The brazen broke into the storerooms whose fruits they’d been denied; sometimes they even made themselves comfortable before their victim’s hearth before tucking into their plunder. There was a counterreaction, of course. English Puritans banned the celebration of Christmas in 1652, as their colonial counterparts would in 1659 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This was the original war on Christmas; you can see for yourself how it turned out.”

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