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In my poem “The Fires of Ecstasy at Samhuinn”, I wrote of the goddess Brìghde’s transformation into the Cailleach, or Queen of Winter. ’s illustration for my poem captures that metamorphosis.



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2021-12-22

John Bauer: Bland Tomtar och Troll (Among Gnomes and Trolls) - 1914

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In Norse mythology the sun is a wheel that changes the seasons & it was from the name of this wheel, houl, that the word yule came. At the mid-winter solstice they would light bonfires, tell stories, drink ale & generally make merry.
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The Feast of the Epiphany celebrates when the Three Wise Men realize who baby Jesus is. They stop by and ask old Befana for directions. She doesn't know, but offers a place to stay. They offer to take her with them, but she refuses ... (1/2)

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The Story of King Frost. Where King Frost comes to the rescue of a kind & innocent girl who was left in the cold to die. gives her a chest of treasures & warm garments, saving her life. But he freezes her Stepsister, for she was rude & greedy.

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The is the day when the power of the Holly King of winter begins to weaken to be taken over by the Oak King of summer

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Winter solstice

Cakes and mulled wine

A walk in the woods

And all will be fine



(🖼= Eyvind Earle)

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Elves and holly for Yuletide, this winter solstice.
🎨Margaret Tarrant

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2021-12-21

In Italian lore, the witch Befana visits homes on Epiphany Eve to fill children's stockings with gifts if they've been good, or coal if they've been bad. According to legend, she tried to follow the Three Wise Men to see baby Jesus, & is still searching today.

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We have a new story for you, Prince Behram and his fairy bride, Gul Bano. An unexpected, rather peculiar friendship, and a fleeting romance in lands beyond our world. Happy reading❤️

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"It was a magical day... and it was on that day I made the Snowman."

- Raymond Briggs.

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2021-12-15

"Many a winter's night she flies through the streets and peeps in at the windows, and then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful patterns like flowers." —Hans Christian Andersen, The Snow Queen

🎨 by Bill Bell.

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"She calls herself the Queen of Narnia tho she has no right to be queen at all...And she can turn people into stone & do all kinds of horrible things. And she has made a magic so that it is always winter in Narnia—always winter, but it never gets to Christmas."

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"Yuki-Onna" is about a guy whose life is upended by the titular snow woman. Tale's from Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn.

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An icy heart versus the power of true love. "The Snow Queen" reminds us that only selfless love is steadfast, warm and enduring. Tho winter reigns for a while, Spring will always conquer her.


🎨Adrienne Segur, Nada Strelkina

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I've blown the wild untrodden snows
In whirling eddies from their brows,
And I have howled in caverns wild
Where thou, a joyous mountain child,
Didst dearly love to be.
The sweet world is not changed, but thou
Art pining in a dungeon now
Anne Bronte

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The Snow Queen by Charles Robinson

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2021-12-14

Often at midnight she flies through the streets of the town and breathes with her frosty breath upon the windows; then the ice freezes on the panes into wonderful forms that look like flowers and castles ...


🎨The Snow Queen - P J Lynch

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