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Yes, candy canes are said to represent a shepherd's hook.

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They don't really represent anything, they were just added to make them look more "Christmassy". Before the stripes appeared, they were white.

The candy cane represents a shepherds staff. But the stripes have no significance other than tradition. Not all stripes are red either, some are green, others are orange and so on. It's just purely decoration.



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The shape is of a Shepard's Crook.

The white color represents the Christian belief in the sinless life of Jesus.

Not sure what the red color represents, but probably the blood of Jesus.

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kind of. the dragons on skyrim eat them

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Yes, candy canes are said to represent a shepherd's hook.

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According to folklore, they do, but there is no documentation to back the story.

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no, likely the pattern of a candy cane came from a barber's pole. which got its color because of the bloody rags that barber surgeons hung outside of their shops

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