Pickle On Christmas Tree
There are a number of different origin stories attributed to the tradition including an origination in germany.
Pickle on christmas tree. A decoration in the shape of a pickle is hidden on a christmas tree with the finder receiving either a reward or good fortune for the following year. Come christmas day the first person to find the pickle ornament hanging delicately on a branch of the christmas tree gets rewarded. The christmas pickle has vaguely german origins during the 1880s the department store woolworths began selling blown glass ornaments imported from germany some of which were shaped like fruits. In a nutshell tradition has it that the a pickle christmas tree ornament is hidden on the christmas tree.
They might get to open the first present or they get an extra present. Around the same time it was claimed that the christmas pickle was a very old german tradition and that the pickle was the last ornament hung on the christmas tree and then the first child to find the pickle got an extra present. 25 a glass pickle ornament is hidden within the branches of a christmas tree.