Editing 959: Caroling

{{comic
| number    = 959
| date      = October 3, 2011
| title     = Caroling
| image     = caroling.png
| titletext = For a thousand generations we vowed never to forget how his soldiers feasted on our brother Stephen.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|"King Wenceslas massacred my people." needs a deeper explain. Even that Wiki-references seems to be incomplete at all. What did Wenceslas more than thousand years ago? }}
Here are the lyrics for the first verse of the Christmas Carol, "{{w|Good King Wenceslas}}"

:''Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen,''
:''When the snow lay round about, deep and crisp and even;''
:''Brightly shone the moon that night, tho' the frost was cruel,''
:''When a poor man came in sight, gath'ring winter fuel.''

While not a king, {{w|Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia}} is considered a martyr and a saint. Far from being responsible for any massacre, he protected his subjects from external dominance and is still a national hero to the Czech people. [[Black Hat]] is supplying {{w|disinformation}} to unsuspecting carolers, either to shut them up, by making them falsely think that they are associating themselves with a morally reprehensible man, or just because he's a [[classhole]] like that.

The title text references "the {{w|St. Stephen's Day|Feast of Stephen}}", also known as the "Feast of St. Stephen" or "St. Stephen's Day", which is a holiday celebrated on 26 or 27 December by the {{w|Latin Church|Western}} or {{w|Eastern Christianity|Eastern Church}} respectively.  (For the {{w|Eastern Orthodox Church}}, which still observes the {{w|Julian calendar}}, it falls on 9 January of the {{w|Gregorian calendar}}.) It is not actually a feast that involved eating a person named Stephen.{{Citation needed}}
If you look closely, you can see that the carolers may be a family. The man and woman are confused by what Black Hat has said, and the girl is looking to the adults, perhaps gauging their facial reactions, or just waiting for their reply.

==Transcript==
:[Three people, two the same size, one smaller stand together singing Christmas carols.]
:Carolers (in unison): Good king Wenceslas looked out on the— 

:[Black Hat leans out of an above ground window.]
:Black Hat: King Wenceslas massacred my people.

:[The carolers stand in silence, the smaller one looks at the others.]

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