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Grampa's Christmas Origins is a series of short comic stories which appear in The Simpsons Winter Wingding. The first stories appeared in the sixth issue of the series.

In the stories, Abraham Simpson tells his version of how various Christmas customs came to be, often interweaving his accounts with historical events or works of classic literature.

Stories

Picture Subtitle Issue Synopsis Christmas Cards 6 Grampa tells how Christmas cards originated in Victorian England by greedy industrialists exploiting street urchins for their cheap labor. Christmas Carols 6 According to Grampa, Christmas carols were first sung during the Black Death when a group of spoken word wassailers decided to set their poems to music and discovered it attracted rats. The authorities were thus able to round up the rats and end the plague. Christmas Cookies 6 In Grampa's story, the custom of leaving cookies and milk out for Santa began in an orphanage. One boy's candy cane flambé snack set Santa's mouth on fire, but other boys came to Santa's rescue with milk and cookies. Christmas Lights 7 Christmas Eggnog 7 Christmas Trees 7