Wednesday, December 12, 2018 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
A frosty morn on the river...
Put another (Yule) log on the fire…
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
PHOTO BY WENDY RULLMAN
The sun warms the wood of the Wizard Falls Bridge on the
Metolius River.
Woman plans to sue
Bend over sewer pipe
BEND (AP) — A Bend
woman claims repairs to a
city sewer pipe by her home
caused carbon monoxide
poisoning.
The Bend Bulletin reports
the City of Bend received a
notice last week that Susan
and Roger Dosier intend to
sue and requesting that the
city preserve documents
related to an ongoing project
to repair a major sewer pipe.
According to the legal
notice, Susan Dosier began
noticing gases being dis-
charged at the construction
site November 10. She took
pictures while standing
nearby.
The notice says afterward,
Dosier experienced nau-
sea, a loss of hearing, head-
ache, confusion and other
symptoms.
The notice claims she then
went to a hospital where she
was diagnosed with carbon
monoxide poisoning.
Bend City Attorney Mary
Winters said she received the
notice and sent it to the cityʼs
insurance provider as she
does with every tort claim.
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A cheery fire is almost
as important a symbol of the
Christmas holidays as the
Christmas tree or lights.
For centuries, the burning
of a Yule log was an integral
part of the seasonʼs obser-
vances. What exactly is a Yule
Log — besides a sponge cake
dessert?
Like many of our Christmas
traditions, the Yule log has its
origins in Northern Europe
and pre-dates Christianity.
In the Nordic and Germanic
lands, it was customary to
bring an entire tree inside a
longhouse and feed it slowly
into a central fire through
the two weeks or so of the
Yuletide celebration. Among
pre-Christian Germanic
peoples, the Yultide season
corresponded with parts of
December and January and
was often associated with the
Wild Hunt, when a nocturnal
horde thundered across the
winter sky, led by one of the
many manifestations of Odin,
Master of Yule.
As the website www.norse-
mythology.org recounts:
“(The Wild Hunt) swept
through the forests in midwin-
ter, the coldest, darkest part
of the year, when ferocious
winds and storms howled over
the land. Anyone who found
him- or herself out of doors at
night during this time might
spot this ghostly procession
– or be spotted by it, which
might involve being carried
away and dropped miles from
where the unfortunate person
had been taken up, or worse.
Sometimes, the members of
the Hunt entered towns and
houses, causing havoc and
stealing food and drink.”
Good idea to keep the
Yuletide fires blazing, eh?
Itʼs easy to see a more
benign form of The Wild Hunt
in Santaʼs sweeping across
the sky in his sleigh pulled by
reindeer.
Pagan celebrations, obser-
vances and traditions eventu-
ally became Christianized,
the Yule log among them.
Yuletide became a term for the
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Christmas season. The Yule
log was to be burned through
the Twelve Days of Christmas.
The custom spread across
Europe, where different types
of wood became traditional.
WhyChristmas.com notes:
In England, oak is tradi-
tional; in Scotland, it is birch;
while in France, itʼs cherry.
Also, in France the log is
sprinkled with wine before it
is burnt, so that it smells nice.
In Devon and Somerset
in the UK, some people have
a very large bunch of ash
twigs instead of the log. This
comes from a local legend that
Joseph, Mary, and Jesus were
very cold when the shepherds
found them on Christmas
Night. So the shepherds got
some bunches of twigs to burn
to keep them warm.
In some parts of Ireland,
people have a large candle
instead of a log, and this is
only lit on New Yearʼs Eve
and Twelfth Night.
So perhaps it is time to go
out to the woodpile and select
this seasonʼs Yule log. And
keep an eye on the sky…
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