Christmas

Christmas, or "Bradmas" in the Parody Series, is a festival observed at around the 25th of December.
== Role in the series ==
In "How the Queen Stole Bradmas", "Bradmas" is observed instead in Equestria. In one particular Bradmas, Brad was kidnapped by donuts to the Queen, and Spike and his friends have to save him.
In "The Great Appul War (PART 2)", a repeated image of Santa Claus was used as two bars above and below the video, as part of the "Santa-vision" device for "the festively-impaired". Twilight Sparkle also wears a Santa hat and tells Applejack to come home so they can celebrate Bradmas.
== Gallery ==
Manlyspike.png|"Merry Bradmas, every-horse!" - Sweetie Belle.
merry bradmas.png|Twilight Sparkle tells Applejack to come back once her war with the Oranges has ended so they can celebrate Bradmas together.
== Trivia ==
* In Equestria, the ponies instead celebrate Hearth's Warming Eve and Hearth's Warming Day, which commemorate their country's founding. Aside from stage plays celebrating the founders of Equestria and raising the national flag, the ponies also visit their families and decorate with electric lights and decorated trees, somewhat similarly to the real-world Christmas.
* Christmas' traditions were derived from pagan (feasting, lights, trees and decorations, wreaths, the Yule log, caroling, Santa Claus and his reindeer (who are respectively based on Odin and His eight-legged horse Sleipnir), the name "Yule" itself), and Christian (birth of Jesus Christ, Christmas plays, angels, St. Nicholas) customs.
* The date of Christmas was placed on the 25th of December by the Catholic authorities to encourage the Romans to convert to Christianity, which occurred within the last days of the festival of Saturnalia and the later festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti. It also falls within the days of the Germanic festival of Yule, when the Germanic peoples sacrificed to the Gods and ancestors, and when the God Odin led the Wild Hunt on the winter sky.
* In the Philippines, Christmas is sometimes observed in a date as early as September, so one can expect Christmas and Halloween decorations to be placed side-by-side, especially in urban or commercial places.
== See also ==
* Timeline
* HalloweenCategory:Events