Looking Back at the History of Birthdays and Their Celebrations!Birthdays have been around for a long time but the celebration of birthdays and the meaning of it has varied tremendously throughout the centuries.
The first recorded birthday celebration actually dates back before the rise of Christianity.
In some pagan cultures, it was believed that an evil spirit would pay a visit to people on their birthdays. On a person's birthday, people would surround the birthday person and make merry. Usually, this involved making a lot of noise in order to scare away the evil spirits.
Unlike today, birthday gifts were not traditional. Instead, people usually brought the person good wishes.
Although few records give accounts of common people having birthday celebrations, historians are certain that they existed but no one considered them important enough to write about.
Today, most of the documented descriptions come from kings and other high-ranking nobility as well as those with high positions in society.
Many believe that many of the common people and children could not celebrate their birthdays, since they were not wealthy enough to throw a party.
Germans are the first documented in history, to start the celebration of children's birthdays by starting "kinderfeste". The word "kinderfeste" originates from "kinder" meaning children and "feste" which refers to a festival or party.
In 1893, two sisters, Mildred and Patty Hill changed their song from Good Morning to you, to Happy Birthday to You. From then on, the tradition of singing these words caught on and as we know continue to this present day.
As we also know, birthday celebrations are very popular across the world - how the celebrations are carried out differs, but they all involve celebration of one special person on their birthday.
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