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  • Join Lucien Graves for Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas!

    Join Lucien Graves for Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas!
    Nov 21 2025
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    1 min
  • Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas The War on Christmas

    Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas The War on Christmas
    Nov 21 2025
    Boston, 1659: celebrating Christmas is a crime punishable by fine. England banned Christmas in 1644. Puritans viewed it as pagan corruption without biblical justification. Episode two examines centuries when Christmas was illegal, suppressed, deeply unfashionable in America—not becoming a federal holiday until 1870. Lucien Graves reveals how Charles Dickens invented "Christmas spirit" in 1843, how Prince Albert popularized Christmas trees in 1848, how Thomas Nast created modern Santa. The "traditional Christmas" people defend dates only to Victorian commercial reinvention. Lost traditions—mumming, belsnickeling, class warfare disguised as caroling—were too dark to survive domestication. Your ancient Christmas is barely 150 years old. Puritans waged the original war on Christmas—and lost.
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    30 min
  • Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas - The Stolen Festival

    Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas - The Stolen Festival
    Nov 21 2025
    December twenty-fifth is not Christ's birthday. Christianity stole Christmas from pagan festivals that predated it by millennia. Episode one exposes how the Church absorbed Saturnalia's gift-giving, Yule's evergreen decorations, and Sol Invictus's date—strategically rebranding winter solstice celebrations rather than eliminating them. Lucien Graves traces Christmas to Roman drunken revelry where slaves became masters, Norse blood sacrifices ensuring the sun's return, and the Wild Hunt collecting souls across frozen skies. He catalogs the monsters Christianity suppressed: Krampus, Perchta who slits bellies, Grýla who eats naughty children, the Yule Cat that devours the poorly dressed. Christmas needed darkness. The Church eliminated it. This is what lies beneath.
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    33 min