The close and opening of the year was always a ghostly time and a time for telling ghost stories and warding off the gathering darkness. In the modern world this has been forgotten so that ghost and ghoulies are reserved for Halloween and family gathering and cheer for Christmas, but of old they were a piece. The one remnant we sill have of that old time is Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but he was not starting a tradition, he was delving into one long established.
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