Hang On In There, Angela

[poliphilo]

We're taking down the Christmas decorations. Kirstie says it's bad luck unless you leave something up until Twelfth Night. This is a superstition I've not met with before but I'm going to honour it by leaving Angela the Angel in place.

Comments

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That tradition was current in my family.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah. So it's not regional.

I grew up believing it was unlucky to leave anything up after Twelfth Night.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

That was the flip side of the same tradition. Twelfth Night was a perilous causeway between two tarns of the blackest luck.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I can remember being horror struck to discover decorations that had been over-looked and were still hanging around in late January.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I was also under the impression that it was leaving them up after Twelfth Night that was the unlucky thing, but taking them down before was ok. There was a date when you got a second chance to dodge the bad luck, but I can't remember when that was. I know it involved leaving the decorations up for quite a while.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

I't usually leaving things up AFTER twelfth Night which is considered unlucky.

We always take the cards down on Twelfth Night.