Drinking a cocktail of raw eggs, brandy and heavy cream, kissing under the sprig of an invasive plant, nailing our socks to the mantle … if you think about any holiday tradition long enough you’ll start to realize that, out of context, even our most common Christmas-time celebrations are delightfully bizarre.
In the spirit of the most wonderful(ly weird) time of the year, we present to you some Christmas-time traditions from the United States and around the world that are as delightful as they are strange.