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.
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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.
From the ritual
A candle in the window on Christmas Eve
Coinneal na Nollag
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.
- On Christmas Eve, stand the candle on a heatproof dish on a windowsill that faces the road or the street, away from curtains.
- Let the youngest person in the house light it.
- Write on the blank card who you're lighting it for: someone away from home, or someone you've lost.