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Mistletoe came to people's attention because it's evergreen and produces berries in winter, and is often one of the only green things in a winter forest. It comes up a lot in mythology - Greeks liked it, the Norse god Balder was killed by it, druids regard it as a symbol of immortality, and an old Christian story holds that Christ's cross was made of mistletoe, and after the Crucifixion all the mistletoe trees shriveled up. But the tradition everyone thinks of is originally Scandanavian - if two people are under a sprig of mistletoe, they must kiss. This was first a tradition that if two armies in a forest saw mistletoe growing, they stopped fighting for a night.
An usual element of the [[Christmas Episode]].
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* A piece of official Christmas art for ''[[Girl Genius]]'' features Agatha, her two love interests, and propeller-equipped mobile sprig of mistletoe.
* An ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' Christmas filler features [http://egscomics.com/sketchbook/?date=2010-12-24 a fairy holding mistletoe over two characters.]
* ''The Prime of Ambition'' had a bonus [http://jaadrih.comicgenesis.com/d/20101225.html page] where the cast plays tricks with each other around a mistletoe.
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