The Tradition of Mistletoe at Christmas 

Traditionally, a branch of mistletoe is hung over the doorway of one's home for peace and good luck.  In England, young girls took a mistletoe leaf and put it under their pillows at night.  They would then supposedly dream about a particular boy or man they wanted to marry someday. 

So the custom of kissing under mistletoe seems to comes from jolly ol' England.  The earliest recorded date mentioning kissing under the mistletoe is in 1784 in a song from a musical comedy called "Two to One".  The custom appears to have started around the 1720s.  Mistletoe was also hung on the old English decoration called the Christmas Bough or Kissing Bough which was very popular during the 1700s .. hence the name!

There are illustrations of kissing under the mistletoe in the first book version of A Christmas Carol published in 1843 and this might have helped to popularize the custom.  The original custom was a berry was picked from the sprig of Mistletoe before the person could be kissed and when all the berries were gone, there could be no more kissing!

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