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Where did Christmas trees come from and why do Eastern Europeans scare children with crampus parades?

Christmas traditions around the globe range from delightful to strange and even frightening.

In today's special Christmas episode, we speak to an expert about the origin story of things like Santa, mistletoe, and candy canes.

Plus, we have a special Christmas message from Team MorningWire at the end.

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire, executive editor John Bickley.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

This is this year's special Christmas episode of Morning Wire.

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Joining us now to educate us on the history of the strangest Christmas traditions is author of

Why We Kiss Under the Missletoe and Baylor University professor Michael Foley.

Michael, thank you so much for coming on.

Thank you for having me on.

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