
A Christmas Full of Spirits
Since the start of the season, people have been sending me links to articles about the lost tradition of telling ghost stories on Christmas. You are familiar with this tradition- one of the most famous of all the holiday tales is Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is, essentially, a tale of a man spending the night being tormented by three different ghosts. Andy Williams alludes that this tradition in his often-played “Most Wonderful Time of the Year” when he sings the lyrics