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Yule, celebrated during the winter solstice, is a time-honored festival marking the shortest day and the longest night of the year. This celebration, deeply rooted in ancient traditions, offers a ...

Because Yule is the longest night of the year, we burn candles on the log to represent the sun coming back," says Deosil, who grew up in Milwaukee and has celebrated the holiday her entire life.

The Norsemen of Northern Europe saw the sun as a wheel that changed the seasons. It was from the word for this wheel, houl , that the word yule is thought to have come.

Yule became a name for Christmas in the 9th century. It came from the Norse word hweol, meaning wheel. The Norse believed that the sun was a great wheel of fire that rolled towards and then away ...

Don't curse the darkness on Yule, Dec. 21, the longest night of the year. Instead, set your modern chores aside and embrace the past. Start a new family tradition by partying like your ancestors did.

Yule marks the point at which the Sun begins to return to us—aka when the days begin to lengthen again. But the winter solstice is the darkest day of the year, so Yule is both a time of ...