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| Picture No | 10793770 |
| Date | 1854 |
| Description | Peasants celebrating Christmas Eve at Tonniens 1854 |
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Old Christian custom on Christmas Eve, in France Germany and Norway, were farmers and peasants perambulating the fields, going round and round the boundary, singing and shouting and waving their bright burning torches.
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| Source | Engraving by Janet Lange in 'L'Illustration, Journal Universel', 30 December 1854, page 436 and also in 'The Illustrated Times', 26 December 1857, page 445 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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