The Twelve Days of Christmas (also known as Christmastide) are the twelve days between Christmas and Epiphany.
This is also the title of a popular Christmas song. On the twelve days of Christmas, my true love gave to me (Western calendar):
- December 26: A partridge in a pair tree.
- December 27: Two turtle doves
- December 28: Three French hens
- December 29: Four calling birds
- December 30: Five golden rings
- December 31: Six geese a-laying
- January 1: Seven swans a-swimming
- January 2: Eight maids a-milking
- January 3: Nine ladies dancing
- January 4: Ten lords a-leaping
- January 5: Eleven pipers piping
- January 6: Twelve drummers drumming
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