For Christmas Eve
The Christmas candle box
A candle for the window on Christmas Eve, as Irish homes once lit one, with everything you need to keep the custom.
What's inside
A long-burning candle
Wrapped in linen, tied with twine.
A stoneware dish
For the candle to stand on, on the windowsill.
Long matches
In a Rowan & Rite matchbox.
The story card
The custom, where it was written down, and how to keep it, with a link to Conor's video.
A blank card
To write who you're lighting the candle for.
The box
Deep green, made to keep.
The custom
A candle in the window on Christmas Eve
On Christmas Eve in Ireland, a candle was placed in the window, lit by the youngest in the house, and left lighting all night. Schoolchildren across the country wrote the custom down in the 1930s, alongside hanging stockings over the kitchen chimney for Santa. You can keep it with one candle on your windowsill on Christmas Eve.
Order for Christmas
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A note from Conor
I'm Conor. Rowan & Rite started with a gift from my mother when I moved into a new home: a small Irish good-luck custom, and still one of my favourite presents. So much of what we buy to unwind carries no meaning, yet Irish tradition is full of small rituals for the turning year and for life's moments, and most are easy to keep. Each box brings one back, with the story of where it comes from and the source it's drawn from.
Conor
Later this winter
6 January
Nollaig na mBan
Women's Christmas, when women took the day for themselves.
1 February
St Brigid's Day
Brigid's cloth on the windowsill, and the start of spring.