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It's re-animated Russian insects getting festive around the tree with Santa; transforming traditional into

'The Insects' Christmas / Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa' (1913) dir. Ladislas Starevich.

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The Moomins cartoons mixed dark elements in with children's storytelling.
I remember being frightened of the Ice Queen chasing Little My.
Oh yeah and she had stars for feet
https://t.co/gFWrhr8M4D

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2019-12-13

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME. 3rd spirit to appear to Scrooge. 'The Phantom gravely, silently, approached, shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand'. Images 1843, 1920, 1970

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2019-12-13

JACK FROST Is wonderfully In 1902 he appears in 'The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus', by L. Frank Baum, author of the Wizard of Oz. He's re-imagined by Arthur Rackham in Allies' Fairy Book 1916, Hawthorne's Wonder Book 1922 & in Linda Ravenscroft

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2019-12-11

VICTORIAN XMAS After all nothing quite says Christmas like an amorous root vegetable, a group of pyromaniac sparrows or a grotesque-looking teapot lady!! You have to love Xmas cards

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2019-12-10

The horrible, terrible (and sometimes benevolent) Frau Perchta, a cousin to the is the topic of the new episode now out. Complete with music and FX. on , Stitcher, etc. and link here:
https://t.co/QejS2EunkA

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2019-12-10

THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. It's the work of a Hobgoblin. If a fragment enters a person's eye they will see only faults, if a splinter enters a person's heart it will turn to ice

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2019-12-09

In Polish folklore, Turoń is a festive monstrosity in the form of a black, horned and shaggy animal with a flopping jaw. Its appearance can be noticed at folk events during the period of Christmas, yet most likely in times of Carnival and before Lent begins.

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2019-12-09

In this scene alone we have a corpse, a thief, a ghostly apparition, a fiendish miser and a dreadful portent of doom...

a full house.

'A Christmas Carol' (1910) dir. J. Searle Dawley for Edison Manufacturing Company.

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2019-12-08

ICELANDIC YULE CAT At Yuletide Icelandic parents warn children of the monstrous kitty of Nordic folklore, JÓLAKÖTTURINN. He can tell who's been naughty or nice. Bad children are warned they'll be sacrificed to the ravenous feline

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2019-12-07

CHRISTMAS SPIDER In Polish & Ukrainian myth, if a spider covers the tree in cobwebs on Christmas eve, they'll magically turn into silver and gold strands on Xmas morning. Xmas tree decorations called 'pavuchky' or 'little spider' are popular

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2019-12-04

Illustrations by contemporary Irish artist PJ Lynch for “The Snow Queen” (1844) by Hans Christian Andersen: the icy Queen of the snow bees and the troll mirror which makes one see only ugliness in the world

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2019-12-03

GOTHIC XMAS TREES The Ukrainians decorate their Christmas tree with a spider's web. It's believed that the webs will bring good fortune and luck for the upcoming year. If you are struggling to find inspiration for your Gothtastic tree look no further

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2019-12-03

In Inuit mythology an ijiraq is a sort of shape shifter who kidnaps children and hides them away and abandons them. The inuksugaq (or inukshuk) of stone allow these children to find their way back if they can convince the ijiraq to let them go.#GothicAdvent

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2019-12-02

Day 24 of
For Christmas Eve we end on an earlier incarnation of Dickens' Christmas Carol with illustrations and slides of his short story "The Goblins Who Stole a Sexton" (1836) - originally a tale within the novel Pickwick Papers.

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2018-12-24

"Visions of the future.
A miser's death."

'A Christmas Carol' (1910) dir. J. Searle Dawley for Edison Manufacturing Company.

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2018-12-23

Tokyo Godfathers (2003 dir. Satoshi Kon) sees 3 homeless people find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve & set off through a snowy Tokyo to find her parents. It's got more violence & Yakuza assassinations than most Christmas stories but is still heartwarming& funny.

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2018-12-22

Day 21 of the
Stephen Gammell's disturbing illustrations for "Scary Stories to Tell on the Dark" (1981) the first of three collections of folklore and urban legend retold for children by Alvin Schwartz.

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2018-12-21

Unjolly antique Christmas ornaments.

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2018-12-18

My animal Day 10: "The Rime of Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Within the shadow of the ship
I watched their rich attire:
Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
They coiled and swam; and every track
Was a flash of golden fire.

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2018-12-17