2006-12-15 01:17:51 · 23 answers · asked by tulip 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
And what the fairy has to do a head stand all over xmas???????
2006-12-15 05:37:42 · answer #1 · answered by superstar 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excuse me but it is not from devil worshippers, nor did it start as a marketing ploy. The fad going on now may have. But hanging the tree upside down is a pagan tradition. And no I don't mean satanic.
2006-12-15 01:42:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hanging the tree upside down from the ceiling comes from having small children and not wanting the wee ones to mess with the tree. they can still see and enjoy it but not be able to knock it down or pull ornaments from it.
We've done it :) Looks rather cool (opinion only)
2006-12-15 01:20:52 · answer #3 · answered by PrincessPlum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I comes from not having enough room to set up the tree the traditional way. Very ingenious if you ask me!
2006-12-15 01:20:38 · answer #4 · answered by T M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It woulld be easier if we could put it up to devil worship, but I think it actually came from some advert exec who wanted to symbolise the way the cost of Christmas effects people.
Charles "That Cheeky Lad" Happy Christmas!
2006-12-15 02:41:40 · answer #5 · answered by Charles-CeeJay_UK_ USA/CheekyLad 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Devil worshippers.
I've never head of any such tradition and it sounds a bit mad to be honest. Why not put the tree up the way it was meant to be?
2006-12-15 01:27:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I dunno. But my family started one year when we got my Great Grandmas old xmas tree, and we put it right side up and all, but outside it looked like it was hanging upside down from the ceiling, so now every year we hang our xmas tree upside down!
2006-12-15 01:20:03 · answer #7 · answered by m_thurson 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Retailers started as a fad a few years ago but actually it dates back to the Middle Ages...
Interesting question and answer! :)
2006-12-15 01:23:00 · answer #8 · answered by Jenn 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jeremy Thorpe started it and it is now followed by most Lib Dems
2006-12-15 01:37:03 · answer #9 · answered by billbarlow2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a marketing thing. Just a new twist on an old idea. AND the fact that there's more room for pressies. But I still think it looks stupid. Just my opinion.
2006-12-15 01:37:34 · answer #10 · answered by mrssamikeyp 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Chucking them out after Christmas.
2006-12-15 01:19:52 · answer #11 · answered by Jon B 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋