BY A STAFF REPORTER: Just as people today decorate their homes with pine, spruce, and fir trees during the festive season, many ancient peoples hung evergreen boughs on their doors and windows. In many countries, it was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness.
The Christmas tree was imported from Germany. There is a story about this. One winter evening, Luther, walking home, was amazed to see stars twinkling among the evergreens. To recreate the scene for his family, he set up a tree in the main room and attached its branches with lighted candles.
In 1846, members of the popular royal family Queen Victoria and her German prince Albert were sketched in the Illustrated London News with their children standing around a Christmas tree. The earlier royal family was very popular with their renters and immediately became fashionable. It had become fashionable not only in Britain, but also in fashion-conscious East Coast American society.
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