Malam Kedua Belas (hari cuti)

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. Tradisi berbeza menandakan tarikh Malam Kedua Belas sebagai sama ada  atau , bergantung kepada sama ada pengiraan bermula pada hari Natal atau .

 Lihat juga 
 Hari sebelum Krismas
 Pantomim
 Penampakan

Rujukan

Bacaan lanjut
 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  at The Christian Resource Institute
William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night 

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