We’ve been duped, writes Rebecca Berry. The Jingle Bells song, written 164 years ago, was a sleighing song whose original title was One Horse Open Sleigh. But yuletide intentions did not inspire songwriter James Pierpont, rather sleigh races he witnessed.
. . . jingling sleigh bells were not festive adornments because having bells was the law. Heavy fines were issued if a sleigh was found without the jingle jangle of bells to alert oncoming traffic.”
Source: Horse Network, December 20, 2021. Link.
INSIGHTS: History aside, there’s no reason to avoid making spirits bright and laughing all the way, ha ha ha ha!