🎀The History of Caroling🎀

The following video provides a brief history of the caroling tradition, including a description of the earlier practice of wassailing. Get the Christmas workbook: **** Teachers, check out our holiday lessons: *** Follow us on Facebook: **** In this video: Everyone has heard of going caroling at Christmas time, but why do we practice this tradition? Where did it come from? Caroling is a tradition of traveling door to door with family or friends to sing Christmas songs for neighbors. This is a tradition that has been with us for centuries. It dates back to the Middle Ages and an older tradition known as Wassailing. Wassailing was a tradition which involved peasants visiting the home of their landowner at Christmas time. The peasants would sing songs in exchange for food and drink. The giving of food or other gifts was an act of charity on the