OVERSEAS TRADITIONS
In Iceland, kids put their boots by a window & either get candy if they're good or rotten these tubers if not
Potatoes
Tolkien wrote that this character was "able swiftly to draw a great war-bow" & had the "tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies"
Legolas
This famous Jazz musician popularised the song 'Cool Yule'
Louis Armstrong
In "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", carolers demand a "figgy" one & won't go until they get some
Pudding
The first two lines of this Christmas classic with the vowels removed (and random spaces):
FLZN VDD
FL ZNVD D
Feliz Navidad
In Sweden, a Christmas straw one is traditional; there's the 42-foot, 4-ton example in Gävle
A goat
This rhymingly named item has its own storybook subtitled "A Christmas Tradition"
Elf on the Shelf
Song that includes the lyric "See the blazing yule before us"
Deck the Halls
About 1.76 billion of these striped treats are sold in the U.S. every year; most of them are used for decoration
Candy canes
The first two lines of this Christmas classic with the vowels removed (and random spaces):
DSHN GTHR GH T HSN W
N NHRS PNS LGH
Jingle Bells
Japan keeps the holidays "extra crispy" with what has become a traditional Christmas meal from this chain
KFC
Follow the lieder! This composer found some early success in 1821 with a song called "Elf King"
Schubert
A modern pagan nature-focused religion, often associated with Satanism and witches, that celebrates the festival of Yule
Wicca
It's an old tradition to adorn this tusked animal's head with sprigs of bay, rosemary & little flags
A boar (or a pig)
The first two lines of this Christmas classic with the vowels removed (and random spaces):
DN TWN TLT FR CHRS TMS
THR S JST N THNGN D
All I Want For Christmas Is You
Streets are closed to traffic as people roller skate to Christmas Eve mass in this capital of Venezuela
Caracas
The full name of Buddy's biological father in the 2003 film "Elf"
Walter Hobbs
Another name for "Yule singing" that is a rarer alternative to carol singing
Wassailing
During the holidays, Winter White Chocolate is one of the most popular of this American chain's "31 Flavors"
Baskin-Robbins
The first two lines of this Christmas classic with the vowels removed (and random spaces):
HVHL LYJL LYC HRSTMS
TS THB ST TME FTH YR
Holly Jolly Christmas
North of Quezon City, San Fernando is the "Christmas Capital of" this nation, holding a Giant Lantern Festival in December
the Phillipines
Cookie-making "elves" of this American company include Zoot, Flo from accounting & "head elf" Ernie
Keebler
Ninnian Joseph Yule Jr. (Joe Yule)
At Christmastime you might have a "burning" desire to make a buche de noel, a cake shaped like this
Yule log
The first two lines of this Christmas classic with the vowels removed (and random spaces):
WLL WYPN RTH WHR TH R GT SCLD
THR STL BT CH RSTMST HT YV LL B NTLD
Little Saint Nick