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Originally Posted by crich70
Isn't Boxing Day the day when traditionally servants and their master's would switch places for the day?
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I was taught that Boxing day stems from the Middle Ages. Feudal lords would handout the leftovers of the lavish Christmas lunch/dinner/supper prepared by their villeins for the previous day. The leftovers were placed in raffia 'boxes' made by the lord's women-folk.
Switching places sounds like an aristocratic myth to me, unless it's a reference to the short lived Peasant's Revolt - when blood-letting would have preceded any swapping
BR