What started the mistletoe...?

Question

how/who/what started the mistletoe kissing tradition?

Answer 1

Frigg, a Norse goddess, asked everything in the nine worlds not to kill her son, Balder, who was doomed to a tragic death. But she neglected to ask the mistletoe, because she thought it so harmless. Loki tricked Hodr into killing his brother, Balder, by throwing a branch of mistletoe through his body. * I couldn't find where it says how it became a kissing tradition. But I heard it somewhere before, and it was something like: Frigg thought it should never again be used for something so terrible, so everyone should hang it over their heads and kiss under it.

Answer 2

Kissing under the mistletoe :


In eighteenth-century England at Christmas time a young lady standing under some mistletoe, brightly trimmed with evergreens, ribbons, and ornaments, could not refuse to be kissed. Such a kiss could mean deep romance or lasting friendship and goodwill. But if the girl remained unkissed, she could not expect to marry during the following year. In some parts of England the Christmas mistletoe is burned on twelfth night; if the mistletoe was not burned, legend has it that all the boys and girls that had kissed under it would never marry.

Whether we believe the stories or not, mistletoe always makes for fun and frolic at Christmas celebrations. Even if the pagan significance of mistletoe has been long forgotten, the custom of exchanging a kiss under the mistletoe can still be found in many European countries as well as in North America.

Answer 3

It is an old norse(Norway, Sweden, Denmark) custom brought to mainline Europe by the vikings. The Europeans brought it to America as they colonized, especially the English and the Irish immigrants. Another answerer has already given you the legend of how it all started.

Answer 4

a romantic country explanation, as all myths were originally