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'Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.'
- Victor Hugo

Dove (1949) by Pablo Picasso

Edvard Munch's The Mermaid (1896) explores some of the central themes of his oeuvre, like the relation between danger and desire, with the Mermaid representing the seductress that lures a man to his doom, by tempting him to chase her into the ocean.

#FairyTaleTuesday

A Winter Scene (1857) by Caspar Scheuren

'But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
Assailed the monarch's high estate.
(Ah, let us mourn! – for never morrow
Shall dawn upon him desolate!)
And round about his home the glory
That blushed and bloomed,
Is but a dim-remembered story
Of the old time entombed.'
- Edgar Allan Poe

Norwegian fishermen used to believe that one of the greatest dangers associated with working at sea was Draugen, a sea monster thought to be the ghost of a drowned fisherman. If they heard eerie screaming at sea, Draugen was nearby and someone would drown.

#FolkloreThursday

According to Scandinavian folklore, trolls live inside mountains, rocks, and caves, far away from human habitation. They are not solitary beings, and usually live together in small family units, forming communities of trolls that dwell inside the mountains.

#FairyTaleTuesday

'There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more'
- Byron

#Romanticism

According to Norwegian folklore, tonight is the night of Lussi, a female creature with demonic traits. Lussi rode with Åsgårdsreia, the Norwegian version of the Wild Hunt, and her job was to punish people who didn't do their Yule preparations correctly.

#GothicAdvent

'The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree

Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.'

- Robert Frost, Dust of Snow (1923)

Crow on Snowy Branch by Ohara Koson

Lucia Day on December 13, is a celebration of light in the dark Scandinavian winter. The Lucia procession is led by a girl or a woman dressed in a white gown and wearing a wreath of candles in her hair, bringing hope and light into the darkness.

#FaustianFriday