The Twelve Days of Christmas

Have you read the story about the "true meaning" of the Twelve Days of Christmas? I had read it before, and when it was shared at a Christmas event that I attended the other day, I thought I had some vague memory of reading that it wasn't true. So I headed over to Snopes.com, that ever-useful place to check out myths and urban legends and unlikely emails.

So here's what Snopes has to say.