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Why Christmas Lights ...
and Nativity Scenes
stay up until January 6th?
It has to do with the date
celebrated for when
the 3 Wise Men arrived
to greet the infant Jesus
It is known as Three Kings Day,
the Epiphany,
the 12th Day of Christmas
It also marks the official start
of the Mardi Gras Season
often called Carnival
which comes from
the Latin words
carne vale,
meaning
"farewell to the flesh."
Which is apt for my new novel
Which is apt for my new novel
Mardi Gras, Magic, Murder
in 1947 New Orleans
Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte,
Our Lady of Holy Death
is stalking the streets
killing apparently at random.
Her Acolyte is stalking the shadows
of the French Quarter
A masked
Ball of the Undead
is held to entrap
hapless mortals.
And the bomb
that has been ticking
in the midst
of the cast of characters
from
Silhouettes in the Key of Scream
to
Perchance to Nightmare
to
Beware the Jade Christmas
Explodes in
RAZOR VALENTINE
COMING SOON
Interested?
Hi Roland - it's great the way you've tied in the reasons with the new novel you have coming out. Congratulations on all the books you manage to write and promote so cleverly ... good luck with them - and all the very best for 2019 - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteI try ... sometimes I succeed. :-) Thanks for being my friend and dropping in and being so kind.
DeleteYes!
ReplyDeleteMy parents leave their decorations up through the fifth of January.
When I was younger, I used to wonder if there was a reason that the decorations stayed up into January. :-) Redd Foxx kept a Christmas Tree up all year since when he was a boy, his family had been too poor to afford one each Christmas.
DeleteI keep my decorations up at least until the 6th of January, sometimes, as is the case this year, until a week later. Some churches acknowledge the Christmas season to about a week after Epiphany Day which is around the time that the Baptism of Christ is acknowledged.
DeleteYou have some neat titles to those stories, Roland.