Christmas Traditionz (Mistletoe; also known as dung-on-a-twig)

Mistletoe has Indo-European roots.

Mistletoe translated literally means dung (boo-boo)-on-a-twig. 

The word breaks down: 'Misstel' an Anglo-Saxon word for dung (boo-boo) that comes out of a Mistel bird. Toe is the word for twig.



The people (Barbarians) at that time believed that the mistletoe plant burst forth by magic from excrement.

Now I know what you’re thinking... Very Romantic ;-)


By the 16th century scientific knowledge increased and scientists found that the plant was spread by seeds that passed thru the digestive tract of birds.

Actress: Susan Summers increases public awareness currently about the research on Mistletoe as a possible cure for Breast Cancer.
CNN did a much more skeptical follow-up:  http://archives.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/03/30/cancer.treatment/index.html




"What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils" (1Corinthians 10:19-21).

May the Lord add a blessings to the belief in His Word.

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