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yule log
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yule log
log burned at Christmas. [Western Tradition: NCE, 552]
See : Christmas


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As Jews honor the hope of Hanukkah with lighting candles in the dark of approaching winter, Christians honor Jesus and hope by lighting candles, burning yule logs and, finally, decking the tree with lights.
Yule logs and lighted trees, holding off the seemingly endless night, are examples of such adaptations.
``And the yule logs used to be a huge tradition on Channel 11 in New York, where it was just a picture of a log on television.
 
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