Another theory by Yule and Burnell ( 1886 ) is based on an entry in the Catalogue of Indian Serpents from the Leyden Museum ( Ray, 1693 ) that reads: Anacondaia Zeylonensibus, id est Bubalorum aliorumque jumentorum membra conterens, meaning " the anacondaia of the Ceylonese, i. e. he that crushes the limbs of buffaloes and yoke beasts.

Immediately following the College Walk festivities is one of Columbia's older holiday traditions, the lighting of the Yule Log.

* 1966 – The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is first erected in Gävle.

The Horned God is born in winter, impregnates the Goddess and then dies during the autumn and winter months and is then reborn by the Goddess at Yule.

Imbolc is defined as a cross-quarter day, midway between the winter solstice ( Yule ) and the spring equinox ( Ostara ).

Julmust ( Swedish jul " Yule " and must " juice ") is a soft drink that is mainly consumed in Sweden around Christmas.

In the pagan wheel of the year the summer solstice is the time of Litha and the winter solstice is that of Yule.

In chapter 14 of Saga of Hákon the Good a description of the pagan Germanic custom of Yule is given.

In Europe, this is particularly the case with the various customs of Carnival or Fasnacht and the Yule traditions surrounding Santa Claus / Sinterklaas.

Yule or Yuletide (" Yule time ") is a religious festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples and some neighboring peoples, before later being absorbed into, and equated with, the Christian festival of Christmas.

Yule is the modern English representative of the Old English words ġéol or ġéohol and ġéola or ġéoli, with the former indicating "( the 12-day festival of ) Yule " ( later: " Christmastide ") and the latter indicating "( the month of ) Yule ", whereby ǽrra ġéola referred to the period before the Yule festival ( December ) and æftera ġéola referred to the period after Yule ( January ).

Yule is attested early in the history of the Germanic peoples ; from the 4th century Gothic language it appears in the month name, and, in the 8th century, the English historian Bede wrote that the Anglo-Saxon calendar included the months geola or giuli corresponding with either modern December or December and January.

A description of " heathen " Yule practices is provided ( notes are Hollander's own ):

" This saga is set soon after Iceland converted to Christianity and identifies Yule with Christmas: " No Christian man is wont to eat meat this day Eve, because that on the morrow is the first day of Yule ," says she, " wherefore must men first fast today.

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In addition, Yalda, Saturnalia, Karachun, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Yule ( see winter solstice for more ) are also celebrated around this time.

Terms with an etymological equivalent to Yule are used in the Nordic countries for the Christian Christmas ( with its religious rites ), but also for other holidays of the season.

The expression Yule log has also come to refer to log-shaped Christmas cakes, also known as chocolate logs or Bûche de Noël.

In the north-east of England it was commonly called a " Yule Clog ", and in the country's Midlands and West Country, the term " Yule Block " was also used.

In France and Wallonia, and thence also in Quebec and in Lebanon, the Bûche de Noël (" christmas log ") is a traditional dessert, in origin a facsimile of the actual Yule log.

* December 21 – Winter solstice, also known as Yule.

Yule also made the first recorded crossing of the Harding Icefield.

She is also the mother of the Yule Lads, the Icelandic equivalent of Santa Claus.

In 2003, Tribune Broadcasting, parent company of WPIX, announced that in addition to being broadcast in New York City, The Yule Log would be broadcast in additional U. S. television markets on other Tribune-owned television stations, and would also be broadcast by high definition television that year as well.

There are also plans to broadcast The Yule Log on Tribune's new digital subchannel network, Antenna TV, beginning in 2011, bringing the concept to many more additional markets without dependence on WGN America.

KSTC-TV, owned by Hubbard Broadcasting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, also produces a local version of the Yule Log.

In its early years, the Home Shopping Network also aired a Yule Log for the network's only non-broadcasting day before moving to a loop of Tampa Bay Area choirs singing Christmas carols and host wishes in subsequent years.

Some of the stations and cable channels that have broadcast imitations of the Yule Log simulcast the Christmas music from a radio station that is playing it, and before 1989, the WPIX version also secondarily promoted the playing of the same Christmas music in a simulcast over their sister FM station, WPIX-FM ( 101. 9 ), for those unable view the Yule Log on television.

A great many video fireplace productions with a similar format have also been marketed on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray, some of which are entitled " Yule Log " The Yule Log program also helped influence the " Puppy Bowl ", an annual special broadcast by cable network Animal Planet on the day of the Super Bowl.

Some also light a Yule Log on the first night ( Christmas ) and let it burn some each of the twelve nights.

It is also used in the French dessert known as Bûche de Noël ( Yule log ).

In 1934 the British National Films Company was formed in England by J. Arthur Rank, Lady Yule and producer John Corfield, who were also the original owner-operators of Pinewood Film Studios.

Additionally, Yule is the traditional name used for Christmas in Scotland in the Scots Language.

The term " Yule log " is not the only term used to refer to the custom.

Yule marble was used in its construction.

Davidson says that loaves of this type may take the place of an animal sacrifice or animal victim, such as the boar-shaped loaf baked at Yule in Sweden, and that in Värmland, Sweden " within living memory " grain from the last sheaf was customarily used to bake a loaf into the shape of a little girl that is subsequently shared by the whole household.

The word Naidu is used by the older writers in southern India in several senses, of which the following example given by Yule and Burnell may be cited:

In their 1886 dictionary, Hobson-Jobson, Sir Henry Yule and Arthur C. Burnell explained that the word came to be used in British India for several things the British had brought into the country, such as the tomato and soda water.

This means that the tail of the Yule – Simon distribution is a realization of Zipf's law: can be used to model, for example, the relative frequency of the th most frequent word in a large collection of text, which according to Zipf's law is inversely proportional to a ( typically small ) power of.

White Yule Marble from the quarries near Marble, Colorado was also used throughout the capitol for the floors.

The white marble of the building is Yule marble, quarried in Marble, Colorado and which is also the source used for the Tomb of the Unknowns and the Lincoln Memorial.