If you've answered this before my apologies, but in your eyes what does it take to make something fact or fiction?.
E.g. someone recently and very strongly advocated that there was no link between some Christmas traditions (e.g. wreaths) and pre-christian practices (e.g evergreen boughs) 1/?
which to me goes completely against current scholarship. Now, clearly I can 100% be wrong, but none of his arguments did much to dissuade me (built in hair splitting), but because I wasn't in a position to go to a research library and find proper sources, I was labelled as a sheep for believing 2/?
What I thought was commonly accepted links in history. So I guess this comes down to one question: for things that we may not have written records for (e.g. a priest blatantly saying they "stole" traditions), how can we be sure they're fact or fiction? 3/3
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E.g. someone recently and very strongly advocated that there was no link between some Christmas traditions (e.g. wreaths) and pre-christian practices (e.g evergreen boughs) 1/?