Christmas and holiday season
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The Christmas season or the festive season, also known as the holiday season or the holidays, is an annual period generally spanning from November or December to early January incorporating Christmas
Christmas tree in Japan. Christmas is celebrated by an increasing number of non-Christians around the world.
Midwinter sunset at Stonehenge
Saturnalia (1783) by Antoine-François Callet, showing his interpretation of what the Roman Saturnalia might have looked like
Adoration of the Shepherds by Dutch painter Matthias Stomer, 1632
Knut's party
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A Knut's party or Knut's dance is a tradition in Sweden on Saint Knut's Day, which marks the end of the Christmas and holiday season, which includes Advent Sunday, Saint Lucy's Day, Christmas, New Yea
Knut's dance or Dancing out Christmas, by Swedish artist Hugo Hamilton (1802–1871)
A Swedish "fishing pond" for children is used on many occasions, here on Midsummer's eve.
Christmas crackers are common during Knut's parties.