The News Craving
Published by
Relaxnews
Relaxnews
By GINTS IVUSKANS / AFP Dressed in pagan folk costumes, Latvians gather on a square in the centre of Riga for a ceremony that some historians see as the ancient precursor to the Christmas tree tradition. Dressed in pagan folk costumes, Latvians gather on a square in the centre of Riga for a ceremony that some historians see as the ancient precursor to the Christmas tree tradition. But these colourful revellers celebrating the winter solstice have not come to decorate a tree, but to burn one. After dragging a tree trunk by rope through the streets of the Baltic capital, the wild looking bunch t…