Ghosts never appear on Christmas Eve. – English proverb [M. Aislabie Denham, W. Carew Hazlitt, mid-1800s —tε&
Christmas Eve came at last. The day was bright and beautiful, the ground crisp and hard, and the hoary trees shining like diamonds! What a happy day it brought to many, to most! Even in the poorest village a little green fir branch testified that it was Christmas Eve. – Amy Campbell, “Christmas Eve,” 1872