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Updated: May 22, 2025
It is remarkable how common the belief appears to have been that the remains of the Yule-log, if kept throughout the year, had power to protect the house against fire and especially against lightning. As the Yule log was frequently of oak, it seems possible that this belief may be a relic of the old Aryan creed which associated the oak-tree with the god of thunder.
He confessed that he always had wished to test practically this superstition, but that his faith in it had been too strong to suffer him to make the trial! On the other hand, when treated reverently and burned with fitting rites, the yule-log brings upon all the household a blessing; and when it has been consumed even its ashes are potent for good.
Quick as a flash the young fellow answered: "Before a cannon-ball cuts me in two, Commandant, I should like to go to Provence and help once more to lay the yule-log in my own home. Let me do that!" Now that was a serious matter. But the Captain had given his word, and the word of a soldier of the Republic was better than the oath of a king.
Michael are themselves at odds? 'Mayhap it but seemeth so, and they but dispute across the Yule-log, said Dorothy; 'and men down here, like the dogs about the fire, take it up, and fall a-worrying each other. But the end will crown all. 'Discrown some, I fear, said Richard to himself. As they reached the farm-house, it was growing light.
After some old-fashioned country dances through which even Hemstead had been induced to blunder, to Lottie's infinite delight they sat down to nuts, apples, and cider. Billets of hickory were piled higher than ever against the great yule-log; and never did the sacred flame light up fairer and happier faces than those of Alice Martell and Lottie Marsden. And yet they were as different as could be.
While our own more orthodox yule-log ceremonial was in progress, the good Elizo and Janetoun upon whom the responsibility of the supper rested evidently were a prey to anxious thoughts.
"In many parts of Wales it is still customary to keep part of the Yule-log until the following Christmas Eve 'for luck. It is then put into the fireplace and burnt, but before it is consumed the new log is put on, and thus 'the old fire and the new' burn together.
The belief was well rooted, he added by way of instance, that any one who sat on a yule-log would pay in his person for his temerity either with a dreadful stomach-ache that would not permit him to eat his Christmas dinner, or would suffer a pest of boils.
Just as a portion of the yule-log and of the Christmas bread were kept all the year through, a kind of nest-egg of plenteous food and fire, so the kernababy, English or Peruvian, is an earnest that corn will not fail all through the year, till next harvest comes.
Of course you spent Christmas at the old home in England one of those yule-log and plum-pudding Christmases you read of in novels. You Englishmen " "My dear Sanderson, don't call me English! I've told you a dozen times that I'm not English." "So you did; so you did!
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