A Spidery Christmas
...th century. It became a supplement to the Ukrainian “didukh,” the sheaf of wheat and other best grains, which symbolizes Ukrainian Christmas. The spirits of the ancestors come into the home in the didukh for the holy days. They had lived in the fields in the grain helping the bountiful harvest. The didukh is symbolic, the yalynka is decorative. Here’s what a didukh looks like: Image: Wikipedia Being both a fan of spiders and wheat I can only hope...