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🍬🏹Combat Peppermint Floret Handbow🏹🍬
Day Number 18! of the “Christmas Countdown Creation Marathon🍬” I am doing! I hope this exquisite bow and arrow can keep you thrilled until tomorrow's post🌹
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In 1972, she was the 1st woman to be honored as Entertainer of the Year by the CMA. She has written more than 160 songs & released 60 albums. She has had 10 No. 1 albums, 16 No. 1 singles on the country charts, and won THREE Grammies.
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#Winter Plants: The Magic of #Mistletoe by @MythCrafts for #FolkloreThursday #Christmas #Yule
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Instead of a magnetic accelerator cannon, the Mulsanne-class frigate features a directed energy weapon, the Brightlance reflex laser. These frigates have served in multiple battles in the post-war era, including the conflict on Zeta Halo. #LoreThursday
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🌿❣️🌿Holly's evergreen leaves and scarlet berries are a symbol of enduring life at the darkest time of the year. A Christmas superstition said that saving a sprig of holly from the decorations each winter would protect the house from being struck by lightning.
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The Cailleach is the Ancient Earth herself. She is the lichen-covered rocks and the mountain peaks. She is the bared earth covered with snow and frost. She is the Deep Ancestress, veiled by the passage of time. - Liesens, H. #FolkloreThursday #divinefeminine #wintergoddess
Industrialization made printing cheaper and more accessible to authors who wrote 'short' stories around this time of year for the masses! Everyone at the time could retell the easy-to-follow structure of a ghost story from memory. #FolkloreThursday #YuleFolklore
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To celebrate the Winter Solstice (grian-stad geamhraidh), it was customary to carve the face of the Cailleach - an old woman associated with winter - into a log and burn it in the hopes of banishing the cold, dark nights. #FolkloreThursday
The Welsh Mari Lwyd is a horse skull carried on a long pole (with cloak) led around by wassailers. They would knock doors between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night and engage in a rhyming ritual called 'pwnco' in exchange for food and beer #FolkloreThursday
'Woman and Children by a Snowball, Winter' from the series 'Elegant Beauties and Precious Children' - Kikugawa Eizan, ca. 1810.
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There are similarities between winter festivals throughout history. Tenuous links more by accident than design but shared threads of fire, light in the darkness, revelry, tumbling social order and celebrating the returning sun @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday Solstice blessing
Dickens likely took inspiration for the chained spectre of Marley from Pliny The Younger's letters. Along with 'the Spirit of Africa' inspiring the other Spirits.
Researching A Christmas Carol for Early Haunts & delving into the story's origins was a treat.
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In Roman mythology, holly was the sacred plant of the god Saturn, and to honor him at the Saturnalia festival, the Romans gave each other gifts of holly wreaths. Christians would place holly wreaths in their houses to avoid detection https://t.co/F0xO6zoD66 #FolkloreThursday
Behind Door 16 in our #ghosts of #Christmas advent calendar - The Spectral Bear Hunt of Verdley Castle
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The first edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published privately on 16th Dec 1901, when #BeatrixPotter had 250 copies printed as #Christmas gifts for her family & friends. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was given a copy for his children. #FolkloreThursday #Illustration
The Scandinavian festival of St. Lucia’s Day not only celebrates the Christian martyr Lucia of Syracruse, but it also involves Norse pagan traditions, such as lighting fires to ward off evil spirits that emerge during the winter solstice. #FolkloreThursday
Dongzhi (Winter Arrives) is an East Asian winter solstice festival, of which there are regional variations. Families get together to eat dumplings & tangyuan, drink rice wine, & gather in clan tombs to offer food & drink to their ancestors' spirits. #FolkloreThursday