As you’re packing away the Christmas decorations, you may — or may not — want to file this idea away for future Yuletide celebrations. A video shared on social media depicted a trimmed in the old-fashioned way, with real candles rather than electric lights. But rather than the candles being lighted one by one, they burst into flame through the use of a type of fast-burning fuse.
This is how they lit 🔥 the candles on a Christmas tree in Switzerland. I’ve never seen anything like this before. How did the tree not catch fire? — Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) “This is how they lit the on a Christmas tree in Switzerland,” Juanita Broaddrick posted on social media platform X.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before. How did the tree not catch fire?” One commenter shared that such spectacles — achieved by the use of “ignition thread” attached to the candles — in some European churches. Some readers said that they loved the look of real candles on a Christmas tree.
I grew up with real candles on a Christmas tree! Loved it way better than the fake lights. — Caroline Kliby (@SchnurreZueri) “I grew up with real candles on a Christmas tree! Loved it way better than the fake lights,” one said. Another reader added context to the photo, explaining that Christmas trees in — if that is, in fact, where the video was from — contain far more moisture than trees in the U.
S., which often are cut weeks or even months before Thanksgiving, when they usuall.
