The Legend of the Christmas Pickle
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cold winter's eve two Spanish boys were traveling home from boarding school for
the holidays. When they stopped at an inn for the night, the innkeeper, a mean
and evil man, stuffed the boys into a pickle barrel. That evening, St. Nicholas
stopped at the same inn, became aware of the boys' plight, tapped the pickle
barrel with his staff, and the boys were magically freed.
So the
legend goes that the Christmas pickle (an ornament) should be the very last one
hung on the tree on Christmas Eve and whatever child finds the Christmas pickle
on Christmas morning shall get an extra gift from St. Nicholas.
Would you
like to hunt for the Christmas pickle? Hidden within my Christmas pages
you will find a small pickle graphic like this one.
When you find it (the
one on this page is not it) click on it and you will be taken to a page where
you can pick up a little certificate to display on your own website showing that
you found the Christmas pickle.