Talk:Legend of the Christmas Spider

Can someone provide an Ukrainian source of this legend?
Having grown up in Ukraine, I don't recall ever hearing of this folk-tale or legend. I also have never heard any folk tales mentioning the Christmas tree at all.

The tradition of Christmas tree isn't even that old in Ukraine (definitely not older than 18th century). According to Ukrainian Wikipedia, Christmas trees weren't adopted until the second half of 19th century, and even then Didukh prevailed among peasants. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.142.186.166 (talk) 15:45, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

Seems to be a factoid
I don't have time to research and write this up, but it seems to be based on a much newer book

Semisources:


 * A Facebook thread discussing it giving some more links
 * The comments in this post
 * The book that is claimed to be the source

--Mr Shark (talk) 07:57, 24 December 2017 (UTC)