The Legend of the King Cake: A Twelfth-Night Tradition with a Surprise Inside Have you ever heard of the legend where the man who finds the bean in the cake gets to be king for the evening? That’s only one of the many customs and traditions connected with theTwelfth Night Holiday. The National Museum of American History Library contains a number of resources relating to Twelfth Night, including the Dennison’s Christmas Book (1923) published by the Dennison Mfg. Co. Twelfth Night (Holiday) is celebrated on different dates depending on local customs and traditions. Twelfth Night is defined in two ways in Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language…