Have you ever wondered why we kiss under mistletoe around the holidays? Well, the tradition dates back to ancient times, when the Greeks associated the plant with fertility and life. In Victorian ...

Santa’s on his way, the cookies are in the oven, and no doorway is safe—that’s right, with Christmas in less than a week, you’re bound to see those fresh little sprigs dangling above every archway: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White berries fill a clump of mistletoe hanging from an oak. As a young child living in Virginia, I recall kids going door to door ...

Stealing a smooch under the mistletoe is a time-honored holiday tradition — but the word itself has an origin that invokes the exact opposite of romance. As part of NPR's "Word of the Week" series, we ...

Pucker up, it’s time to hang your mistletoe! One of my favorite tales about mistletoe comes from Norse mythology, which started with Freya, the goddess of love and mother of Balder, the summer sun.

Thousands of people gathered in downtown D.C. on Saturday afternoon. They ordered hot chocolate, sang along to the blaring holiday music and laughed loudly. But for a moment, they fell utterly quiet.

The crowd stood beneath a large mistletoe installation for the world record attempt on December 13. DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) Thousands of people and many, many sprigs of a ...

As a young child living in Virginia, I recall kids going door to door selling sprigs of mistletoe in the weeks before Christmas. My mother always bought some and hung it along with some holly over a ...

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