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Updated: June 23, 2025
And this sprig of holly on the wall that had come to remind me, come nobody knew how far, did it grow yet in the beech-wood clearings, as it did when I gathered it as a boy, tracking through the snow? "Christ-thorn" we called it in our Danish tongue. The red berries, to our simple faith, were the drops of blood that fell from the Saviour's brow as it drooped under its cruel crown upon the cross.
In Germany holly is Christ-thorn, and according to an Eastern tradition it was the prickly rush, but as Mr. The negroes of the West Indies say that, "a branch of the cashew tree was used, and that in consequence one of the bright golden petals of the flower became black and blood-stained."
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