Everything you said is very worth while to listen.

Animal sacrifice has no place in Christianity and never had.

True.

In Judaism, animals were NEVER strangled. As in Islam, the animal has to bleed to death.

Thanks. I didn't know that. I was able to acquire a new knowledge.

Sometimes you have the strangest way of thinking.

Let me explain how I reached my idea. See this. This is called shimenawa and literally it means shime=strangle, nawa= rope, means 'a rope to strangle' , but this is a decoration in front of the gate on New Year's Day in Japan, also it is always used in Shinto shrine. My idea in Christmas wreath was derived from association with this rope.

Kokeshi dolls are so common in northern Japan. This word means originally ko = bady, keshi= banish, means baby banisher. This tool was originally used to kill baby just before delivery by putting into. No one now recall original role in looking at kokeshi.

I guess many objects used in some rituals have more meanings than we imagine.

And I don't know how you'd strangle even a chicken with a wreath.

The wreath now we see only has symbolic meaning. Any symbol must be OK to be small as long as it represents original role.