The reason we decorate Christmas trees with tinsel is because of mythical spiders!

17 Dec

The story goes like this -

There once was a very poor widow who could not afford to buy her children any Christmas gifts. So that her children wouldn’t be completely emotionally scarred , she chopped down a Christmas tree and decorated it with nuts, paper chains, fruit and the like. But the widow went to bed still anxious that the children would be disappointed.

Now, the house was full of spiders who had watched her do all this and continued to decorate the tree themselves whilst she slept. They weaved webs across the whole tree, covering it in, as the story goes, beautiful lace (or cobwebs as I see it!).

Luckily, God (no less), saw the widow and spiders efforts and changed the webs into pure silver and gold and the children were (hopefully) delighted!

From this day on, we have decorated our trees with tinsel although these days it’s made from plastic is kills hundreds of pets every year. Merry Christmas eh!