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merry xmas billy!
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Best thread on this site! Don't know where you manage to dig up all this great stuff but appreciate all your hard labour in posting.
Fascinating reading always.
All the very best to you and yours this festive season
Fascinating reading always.
All the very best to you and yours this festive season
Happy Holiday's Heady
Best thread on this site! Don't know where you manage to dig up all this great stuff but appreciate all your hard labour in posting.
Fascinating reading always.
All the very best to you and yours this festive season
Humbled Pangolin, takes some digging to get to the roots but o' that view when your done, good thing I have a big ass shovel. Thank you, all the best to the whole fam
A woman returns home from the market with a Christmas tree, 1895
Koledari
Koledari: The Original Cannabis Caroler's of Christmas Eve
Snuggled up in layers of warmth, out into the cold the joyous crowd goes with hot chocolate or cider's in hand...
Hopping from house to house stopping to bring joy, sing and spirit to all who hear...
Christmas Caroling is steeped in tradition with the holiday season, of course most wouldn't guess what is responsible for starting such a joyous tradition...
That's right, Hemp...
Christmas carol singers in a London suburb, 1927
Going back to Pagan times, including area's around present day Lithuanian, Poland, Germany and Russia, celebrated the Slavic holiday of Koleda.
Koleda fell right around present day Christmas time which celebrating the god Koliada.
Koliada is a Slavic pagan deity symbolized by the small weak winter Sun that is reborn the morning after the winter solstice(December 22).
Koledari
On the Eve of Koleda, a sacred rite would be performed called Koleduvane. Unmarried young men suit up as Koledari to venture into the night...
Koledari are costumes split up into 3 main categories, the anthropomorphic, the zoomorphi , and the anthropo-zoomorphic (mostly represented by goats, bears, ox and demons).
Koledari
These Koledari are lead by an elected leader called "Grandpa", who is generally portrayed as a older, wiser and calmer character to the wild Koledari...
You ask where's the Hemp?...
The last character in this ghoulish looking group is special...
Dressed as a pregnant woman 'Bride' is the main character in this wild troop. Still no hemp, here it comes...
Bride, as the showpiece, would be seated on a wooden hemp breaker. The Koledari would carry the Hemp Breaker as if Bride was riding a horse...
Thats right, a hemp breaker horse...
Not enough, Bride, seated on top of the hemp breaker horse, would be spinning hemp with a distaff...
Bride, notice the Hemp hair on the mask
Koledari: The Original Cannabis Caroler's of Christmas Eve continued...
Spinning with distaff, France 1911
The Koledari and Grandpa would poke fun at Bride the whole night to bring a comic side to the festivities.
The whole group would venture out on Koleda eve at midnight, traveling house to house with a lively spirit... Knocking on the door, the group would burst out into special Koledo song's lead by Grandpa.
Traditional songs would be sung with the word "koledo" sprinkled in and with every sentence ending in a koledo chant.
Old photograph of the whole Koleduvane group (notice the use of the distaff on the left hand side of the photo)
After some singing and dancing out front, the Koledari would then tear through the house searching for evil spirits that are hiding in the home...
Finding the evil spirits, the koledari would chase them from the home ensuring a bountiful harvest in the coming year.
Koledari
With the evil spirits chased away from the home, the homeowners would give the group heckled hemp fiber's for their service...
The heckled hemp fiber's were of course made into thread by the riding Bride. This special thread symbolized fertility which was made into newborn's cloths...
Old photo of a Koledari
When those joyous Christmas caroler's come knocking on your door, you can smile knowing Hemp is what brought you all together for this spirited occasion...
Bride and Grandpa with Koledari, can you guess which one is Bride - Macedonia
Spinning with distaff, France 1911
The Koledari and Grandpa would poke fun at Bride the whole night to bring a comic side to the festivities.
The whole group would venture out on Koleda eve at midnight, traveling house to house with a lively spirit... Knocking on the door, the group would burst out into special Koledo song's lead by Grandpa.
Traditional songs would be sung with the word "koledo" sprinkled in and with every sentence ending in a koledo chant.
Old photograph of the whole Koleduvane group (notice the use of the distaff on the left hand side of the photo)
After some singing and dancing out front, the Koledari would then tear through the house searching for evil spirits that are hiding in the home...
Finding the evil spirits, the koledari would chase them from the home ensuring a bountiful harvest in the coming year.
Koledari
With the evil spirits chased away from the home, the homeowners would give the group heckled hemp fiber's for their service...
The heckled hemp fiber's were of course made into thread by the riding Bride. This special thread symbolized fertility which was made into newborn's cloths...
Old photo of a Koledari
When those joyous Christmas caroler's come knocking on your door, you can smile knowing Hemp is what brought you all together for this spirited occasion...
Bride and Grandpa with Koledari, can you guess which one is Bride - Macedonia
Fantastic post, Billy
Truly amazing the strong similarity between different regions and cultures of the world !
After reading this, I hope any IC'ers will not try and snip a lock from a caroling lady to roll a fatty with !
Truly amazing the strong similarity between different regions and cultures of the world !
After reading this, I hope any IC'ers will not try and snip a lock from a caroling lady to roll a fatty with !
Appreciated GS, so many traditions shared honoring the all mighty plant, I'm all for it
A little addition from a different area of ol' time Hemp growers...
In many area's of Europe (including France) it was very bad luck for the women to spin or work on their hemp starting Christmas Eve and lasting until "Distaff Day" (January 7)...
But on the last day, a babies outfit of hemp would be sewn for the newly born messiah...
Of course we find some tidbits in a traditional Christmas carol from Nice, France...
Christmas Carol of the small distaff
I spun during seven years,
In the moonlight.
In the moonlight.
I have never spun that much,
I never make my fortune.
Traderiderena, Traderidera
I spun during seven years,
Close to my mother.
Close to my mother.
Thin thread we were spinning,
For my lover.
Traderiderena, Traderidera
I will spin as much,
For our Messiah.
For our Messiah.
A skein of thread,
To make him a shirt.
Traderiderena, Traderidera
Fécamp Psalter - Unknown Miniaturist, French (active 1180s in Normandy)
A little addition from a different area of ol' time Hemp growers...
In many area's of Europe (including France) it was very bad luck for the women to spin or work on their hemp starting Christmas Eve and lasting until "Distaff Day" (January 7)...
But on the last day, a babies outfit of hemp would be sewn for the newly born messiah...
Of course we find some tidbits in a traditional Christmas carol from Nice, France...
Christmas Carol of the small distaff
I spun during seven years,
In the moonlight.
In the moonlight.
I have never spun that much,
I never make my fortune.
Traderiderena, Traderidera
I spun during seven years,
Close to my mother.
Close to my mother.
Thin thread we were spinning,
For my lover.
Traderiderena, Traderidera
I will spin as much,
For our Messiah.
For our Messiah.
A skein of thread,
To make him a shirt.
Traderiderena, Traderidera
Fécamp Psalter - Unknown Miniaturist, French (active 1180s in Normandy)
"O Tannenbaum"
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us!
They are green when summer days are bright,
They are green when winter snow is white.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us!
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
You give us so much pleasure!
How oft at Christmas tide the sight,
O green fir tree, gives us delight!
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
You give us so much pleasure!
-early translated version of a 16th-century Silesian folk song by Melchior Franck
These ladies, with their little helper's, spin hemp into yarn, while the children roll up the hemp yarn coming off the spinning spindles. Batsch-Brestowatz, Serbia early 1900's
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us!
They are green when summer days are bright,
They are green when winter snow is white.
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
Your branches green delight us!
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
You give us so much pleasure!
How oft at Christmas tide the sight,
O green fir tree, gives us delight!
O Christmas Tree, O Christmas Tree,
You give us so much pleasure!
-early translated version of a 16th-century Silesian folk song by Melchior Franck
These ladies, with their little helper's, spin hemp into yarn, while the children roll up the hemp yarn coming off the spinning spindles. Batsch-Brestowatz, Serbia early 1900's
The Literary Digest,
April 3, 1926
Article: Our Home Hasheesh Crop
"It made me smile a little when I saw the first reports that a young Mexican was 'concealing' his patch of hemp plants in a New York park. The plant grows from six to ten feet tall and requires plenty of open sunlight; concealment would not have been easy."
The Literary Digest, April 3, 1926
I know what went through your head reading that last part...
Wait, cannabis was called "Americana"....
April 3, 1926
Article: Our Home Hasheesh Crop
"It made me smile a little when I saw the first reports that a young Mexican was 'concealing' his patch of hemp plants in a New York park. The plant grows from six to ten feet tall and requires plenty of open sunlight; concealment would not have been easy."
The Literary Digest, April 3, 1926
I know what went through your head reading that last part...
Wait, cannabis was called "Americana"....
Thought that odd too Mack 10, by dept. of Agriculture I'm wondering if ol' Lyster Dewey played a part in that at Arlington Farms... I know he was searching the world for different varieties with the help of uncle sam and acquiring seeds late 1800's - early 1900's...
The Literary Digest,
October 24, 1936
Article: Facts and Fancies About Marihuana
Ancient Fable:
Three men, one under the influence of alcohol, another steeped in opium, a third intoxicated by marihuana, arrived one night at the closed gates of a Persian city.
"Let us break down the gates!" roared the drunkard.
"Nay," said the opium eater. "Let us rest until morning, when we may enter through the wide-flung portals."
"You may do as you wish," was the decision of the omnipotent marihuana addict. "But I shall stroll through the keyhole."
The Literary Digest , October 24, 1936
October 24, 1936
Article: Facts and Fancies About Marihuana
Ancient Fable:
Three men, one under the influence of alcohol, another steeped in opium, a third intoxicated by marihuana, arrived one night at the closed gates of a Persian city.
"Let us break down the gates!" roared the drunkard.
"Nay," said the opium eater. "Let us rest until morning, when we may enter through the wide-flung portals."
"You may do as you wish," was the decision of the omnipotent marihuana addict. "But I shall stroll through the keyhole."
The Literary Digest , October 24, 1936
Old Hemp Rope at shipyard
Money for Old Rope...
"Rope made from hemp had a limited lifetime. When it wore out it was picked apart and recycled. It was used for caulking. Rope fibres (known as oakum) were hammered into the seams between planks of a ship and hot pitch was poured over it. This was done to waterproof the ship. Of course you got money for the old rope. The phrase came to mean money for anything (seemingly) worthless..."
Caulking a wooden deck with oakum
"The Devil to pay and only a half-bucket of pitch"
"Caulkers recaulking bottom of wooden sailing ship WM Taylor" - 1939
Oakum (hemp rope) hanging from cracks of a old ship
