{"product_id":"twelve-nights-frankincense-myrrh","title":"The Twelve Nights: Frankincense and Myrrh Gift Set","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrankincense and myrrh for the Rauhnächte: a resin warmer with a mesh, a tub of each resin, 12 tealights and a lokta notebook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBetween Christmas and Epiphany, a time Germans still call 'between the years', many households carry resin smoke through their rooms on the twelve Rauhnächte. On 6 January the Sternsinger, children dressed as the Three Kings, chalk 20*C+M+B*27 above the door, and the last of the frankincense goes up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eA small ritual\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEach evening from Christmas night to 6 January, set a tealight in the dish, light it and lay a pea-sized piece of resin on the mesh above. Open a window a crack.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrankincense alone on the first night, myrrh on the second, both together on the last. Let the scent rise in the room where you sit, and never leave the warmer unattended: the metal gets hot.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBefore bed, write one line in the notebook, something you noticed or dreamt; old custom gives each night one month of the year ahead. Let the warmer cool before you lift the mesh out to clean it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA resin warmer in polished plated brass, 11 cm long, with a lift-out mesh over a dish for a tealight: the resin warms gently and no charcoal is needed. Handmade in India.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout 50 g of frankincense resin in a lidded tub.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAbout 50 g of myrrh resin in a lidded tub.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo sets of six vanilla-scented tealights: 12 in all, one for each night, about 4 hours each.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA handmade lokta-paper notebook from Nepal, 15 x 12 cm, 45 leaves, cream with blue cotton flecks and a wrap-over cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pieces arrive together in one parcel. They are not gift-wrapped.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe chalk mark reads 20*C+M+B*27: the year split around three letters that are read two ways, as the initials of Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar and as 'Christus mansionem benedicat', 'may Christ bless this house'. Since 1959 the Sternsinger have gone from door to door as a collection for children in need, the Aktion Dreikönigssingen.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SHAMTAM","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67595388813626,"sku":"SHB-26FSB-03","price":51.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0756\/8307\/0266\/files\/bundle-rauhnaechte-the-twelve-nights-square.jpg?v=1790658572","url":"https:\/\/shamtam.com\/products\/twelve-nights-frankincense-myrrh","provider":"SHAMTAM","version":"1.0","type":"link"}