There is a legend that the first Christmas decorations were edible and apples took not the last place among them. Selected, beautiful, red and yellow — they looked festive on the background of dark green branches. Once there was a bad harvest year and the glass blowers of Lauscha in Thuringia (Germany) offered their help to temporarily replace apples with transparent and colored glass balls. According to legend, this story happened in 1848. Since then, the temporary replacement has become permanent, and people started to make not only balls, but also all kinds of figures of glass, even the whole compositions: