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Christmas Lights

Photuris tremulans

Classification

Class
Insecta

Christmas lights (also known as fairy lights, festive lights or string lights) are lights often used for decoration in celebration of Christmas, often on display throughout the Christmas season including Advent and Christmastide. The custom goes back to when Christmas trees were decorated with candles, which symbolized Christ being the light of the world. The Christmas trees were brought by Christians into their homes in early modern Germany.

Distribution

(c) Anna Hess, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 13