Malam Kedua Belas (hari cuti)

Tarikh5 atau 6 JanuariKekerapantahunan

Malam Kedua Belas (juga dikenali sebagai Malam Penampakan Tuhan) ialah perayaan dalam beberapa cabang agama Kristian yang berlangsung pada malam terakhir Dua Belas Hari Natal, menandakan ketibaan Penampakan Tuhan.^[1] Tradisi berbeza menandakan tarikh Malam Kedua Belas sebagai sama ada 5 Januari atau 6 Januari, bergantung kepada sama ada pengiraan bermula pada hari Natal atau 26 Disember.

Lihat juga

• Hari sebelum Krismas
• Pantomim
• Penampakan

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut

• "Christmas". Catholic Encyclopedia. Dicapai pada 22 December 2005. Primarily subhead Popular Merrymaking under Liturgy and Custom.
• Christmas Trivia edited by Jennie Miller Helderman, Mary Caulkins. Gramercy, 2002
• Marix-Evans, Martin. The Twelve Days of Christmas. Peter Pauper Press, 2002
• Bowler, Gerry. The World Encyclopedia of Christmas. McClelland & Stewart, 2004
• Collins, Ace. Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas. Zondervan, 2003
• Wells, Robin Headlam. Shakespeare's Humanism. Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Fosbrooke, Thomas Dudley c. 1810, Encyclopaedia of Antiquities (Publisher unknown)
• J. Brand, 1813, Popular Antiquities, 2 Vols (London)
• W. Hone, 1830, The Every-Day Book 3 Vols (London), cf Vol I pp 41–61.

Sumber awal Inggeris

(drawn from Hone's Every-Day Book, references as found):

• Vox Graculi, 4to, 1623: 6 January, Masking in the Strand, Cheapside, Holbourne, or Fleet-street (London), and eating of spice-bread.
• The Popish Kingdom, 'Naogeorgus': Baking of the twelfth-cake with a penny in it, the slices distributed to members of the household to give to the poor: whoever finds the penny is proclaimed king among them.
• Nichols, Queen Elizabeth's Progresses: An entertainment at Sudley, temp. Elizabeth I, including Melibaeus king of the bean, and Nisa, queen of the pea.
• Pinkerton, Ancient Scottish Poems: Letter from Sir Thomas Randolph to Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester dated 15 January 1563, mentioning that Lady Flemyng was Queen of the Beene on Twelfth-Day that year.
• Ben Jonson, Christmas, His Masque (1616, published 1641): A character 'Baby-cake' is attended by an usher carrying a great cake with a beane and a pease.
• Samuel Pepys, Diaries (1659/60): Epiphany Eve party, selecting of King and Queen by a cake (see King cake).

Pautan luar

• Epiphany on Catholic Encyclopedia
• The Twelve Days of Christmas Diarkibkan 2015-03-17 di Wayback Machine at The Christian Resource Institute
• William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Diarkibkan 2006-10-04 di Wayback Machine