This is a true story, so I was told;
how it came about that we have Golden Angels on top of Christmas trees.
A long time ago there was a husband
and his wife whose little girl had died. They were so grief stricken. The
husband couldn't stand the sight of his wife crying her eyes out. He went out
and wandered the streets crying, sighing and thinking what can I do to make
grief bearable for both of us? Especially for my wife.
Now the husband was a doll maker so
he went home and saw his wife asleep with all the tears still on her face. He
went into the workshop and tried ever so hard and wouldn't stop until he made
an angelic creation with which he was satisfied. Here, before him, laid an
angelic doll with finely creased golden skirt and apron and the little crown
above the lovely face. It looked like his little girl. Happily he took it to
his sleeping wife and put it into her arm.
When she woke up, she looked at the
beautiful golden angel. She kissed it and said quietly to her husband,
"yes, that is how our little girl looked like."
The golden angel was so admired; he
made it for his family and friends. On Christmas they put it on top of the
Christmas tree. The beauty of the golden angel spread from mouth to mouth and
everybody asked him to make them one as Christmas tree decorations.
More than 300 years have since passed
and the world has change greatly. However, the little tinsel-gold angels have
remained as they were then to the present day.
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