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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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2021-12-21

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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2021-12-16

The Scottish ban nigheachain (little washerwoman), also known as Bean Nighe, is said to be seen washing the clothes in rivers and brooks of those doomed to die. She is a bad omen for any who see her on their travels.

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2021-12-15

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

- Raymond Briggs.

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"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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In Mythology the is the Goddess of the Winter months - in late Autumn she washes the tartan cloth that she wears in the maelstrom: when the cloth is bleached white it becomes the snow blanket that covers the land ...

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The Snow Queen by Charles Robinson

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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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Upon reaching young adulthood, is introduced to human society. He sees war, brutality, poverty, child neglect, & abuse. He cannot reside in Fairyland as an adult, & settles in the nearby valley where the & woodland animals assist him.

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The Ijiraq in Inuit lore is said to be the spirit of folks who wandered too far into the frozen wastes and got caught between life and death. They’re said to be a shape-shifters who cause delusions, but can never disguise their blood-red eyes.1/2

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Beira, Queen of Winter is, according to Gaelic folklore, the goddess of winter. Also known as the Cailleach/Veiled One, & depicted as an old blue hag . She is a wise old woman, acquiring her wisdom by observing the cycles of life & death.
🎨Baraka Robin Berger

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