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Christmas was cancelled in Scotland for almost 400 years and people caught celebrating faced prison

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Christmas celebrations with lights, markets and Santa all lighting up the country for the month of December. The pinnacle of winter, it's hard to imagine a time when Scotland didn't make a huge effort with its Christmas celebrations.

However, there was a time when Christmas was effectively BANNED across the country. Though Christmas is considered to be a religious holiday, it is actually due to religion that it ended up becoming an illicit activity to celebrate this holiday.Beginning in 1560 when the majority of Scotland split from the Catholic Church, in a period known as the Scottish Reformation, the Yuletide celebrations (which combined the Viking Yule celebrations with the Christian Christmas) were effectively removed from the.

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