Christmas in Tudor England wasn’t just a season of feasting, music and Yule logs…
it was also a time when the veil between worlds felt unusually thin.

In today’s Tudor Christmas Advent episode, I’m stepping into the atmospheric world of real medieval and Tudor Yuletide superstitions - beliefs recorded in late medieval sermons, Tudor writings, and 16th-century accounts.

These weren’t cosy Victorian myths or later folklore.
They were ideas that shaped how people in the 1400s and 1500s experienced Christmas Eve itself, a night of wonder, fear, and expectation.

In this video, I’ll share three of the strongest and most authentic Christmas superstitions from the period… and trust me, they’re haunting, surprising, and very revealing about Tudor beliefs.

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