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The Baobhan sith (Bavaan-shee) is a vampiric creature in Scottish folklore. Fair or red haired maidens with deer feet and legs who dance in the moonlight to seduce travellers and shepards, only to kill them and drain their victims of their blood.

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The answer to this week's on is:

Snow ❄️

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Well done and see you next https://t.co/tQD75BsoVp

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Today’s is all about ice and snow! The Hag of Beara was said to bring winter to Ireland. She is associated with various rocks on the coast, usually believed to be her petrified form, staring out to sea forever.

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In the freezing waters of the North Pacific live the Haietlik, giant lightning serpents.
According to Nuu-chah-nulth mythology, the Thunderbirds—supernatural beings from the upper world—use the Haietlik, their allies against evil, as harpoons to hunt whales.

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or Kora, the maiden. Abducted by with approval from her father to be queen of the underworld. She is the of vegetation, leaping forth in Spring and sinking back into the earth in Winter.

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King Bress demanded milk from all the cows that were brown & hairless. He then passed all the cattle in Ireland between two fires so that their hair was singed off, which made all Irish cows brown & hairless.

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In Belgium, on the 25th of November, the feast of St Catherine of Alexandria, if St. Catherine appears in a white veil (snow), the winter will be hard.

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In Polynesian myth, there are four sisters of the snow covered mountains, deities of Mauna Kea. Poliʻahu lives in the summit, Waiau, is a guardian, Kahoupokane is a weaver, and Lilinoe is the maker of mist. Together they create balance between ice and heat.

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Some images of
Jack Frost costume from "Santa Claus" panto, 1894
1910 Jack Frost with his silver brush, Jack Frost and Parsnip, 1914
https://t.co/utQggumrgk

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❄️🌱❄️Even though they're a welcome sign of springtime, Snowdrops were thought to be an ill-omened flower when brought into a house, and might presage a death. 🥚Less frightening was the belief that bringing them inside would prevent poultry eggs from hatching.

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Hedgerow weather forecasting:

"Many haws, many snows,
many sloes many cold toes..."


(Flower fairies C M Barker)

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Gohone is the Iroquois deity of winter, a wanderer spreading frost. Depicted as an old man with a walking stick, he brings winter as he wanders through the northern woods of North America. In spring the coming of Adekagagwaa, god of summer, will banish Gohone

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In the Great Lakes region the Snow Wasset is an unusual creature, growing short legs during the summer which it uses to avoid the light. Once the first snows come however, it sheds these legs to burrow its way through the drifts in search of hibernating prey.

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Jötunheimr, one of the nine worlds of Norse cosmology, is the land of the Jötnar, often wrongly translated as giants in Anglo-Saxon culture.

The Jötnar refers to entities that range from gorgeous to grotesque.



Illus. by Arthur Rackham.

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The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft In Early Medieval Europe said the "Little Ice Age" in Europe was caused by witches.”In northern Alpine regions and in many parts of Central Europe,witches were blamed for meteorological disasters (hail, storms, frost...,"#FolkloreThursday

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If you ever set foot in the Giant Mountains of Central Europe, watch out for a gnome. Be friendly and he will repay you, pointing the way to buried treasures. Mock him and you will pay for he can send lightening, fog or your way! He is Rübezahl.

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🌟THE LIGHTBRINGERS🌟
For we thought we'd share some of folkloric images. Here's Mari Lwyd. A Welsh tradition: a pale horse that stalks villages with a troup of wassailers, its skull adorned with ribbons and winter foliage. https://t.co/xdlUJHQZAF

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"Bread and milk for breakfast,
And woollen frocks to wear,
And a crumb for robin redbreast,
On the cold days of the year."
(✒️Christina Rossetti 🎨 Walter Crane)

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