Legends
Some traditions credit St Boniface with the invention of the Christmas tree. The vitae mention nothing of the sort. The myth, however, is found on a BBC-Devon website, in an account which places Geismar in Bavaria, and in a number of educational books, including St. Boniface and the Little Fir Tree, The Brightest Star of All: Christmas Stories for the Family,, The American normal readers. and a short story by Henry van Dyke, "The First Christmas Tree."
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Famous quotes containing the word legends:
“Farm boys wild to couple
With anything with soft-wooded trees
With mounds of earthmounds
Of pine straw will keep themselves off
Animals by legends of their own:”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)
“Therefore our legends always come around to seeming legendary,
A path decorated with our comings and goings. Or so I’ve been told.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)