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On New Year's Eve, the rats around your house are listening. If they hear nothing said about them, they leave forever. But, if they hear the word rat, they take it as an invitation and return with all their friends...


🎨Warwick Goble

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'There is much speculation as to where the snow comes from. Some surmise that it is simply weather...but it is the old woman who brings the snow.'
- The Old Woman Who Brings the


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by James Christopher Carroll

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The little wren, in wife of the robin, stands up to birds much larger than herself. In Celtic lore she symbolised the year that was past. She is known to sing throughout & is thus a symbol of hope & rebirth. (5th Jan)

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PUSS IN BOOTS Often seen in panto, is the most renowned animal trickster in folklore. Popularised in Perrault (1628–1703) as Le Chat Botté, in English in Mother Goose, 1780 & Blue Fairy Book, 1889🎨Ills. Doré c.1870; Robber Kitten,1887

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An oft' overlooked folklore character is Mother Goose, a fascinating teller of children's fairy tales, who will appear in your vestibule/hallway on if you leave your shoes near the front door.
Expect tangerines & nuts in them come New Year's morning

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“Wild Swans”
©️Bridget & John Original2022

“For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.”
― Juliet Marillier.

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"The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time – a time to contemplate your immortality.."
-- Frederick Lenz
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🎨The Enchanted Tree by me🎄🙂🎄

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In Basque lore is a unique gift giver known as Olentzero, a big friendly giant who varies from tale to tale; some say he has three eyes, others say he carries a sickle, and in others he is a sea captain.

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Three beautiful illustrations from the 1843 Charles Dickens novella "A Christmas Carol" by John Leech.

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Deda Mraz in Eastern Slavic folklore is a winter spirit who looks like a greyish old man made of snow & wind with a staff made of an icicle that he taps on surfaces that begin to crackle, as they turn to frost, waters turn to ice, as he paints the winterscapes.

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Wreath-making dates back to ancient Greece, and Rome. People would craft them using fresh leaves, twigs, berries and flowers. Often worn as a headdress, these wreaths symbolised a person’s rank, accolades, and status
by Margaret Savelsberg

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‘At last the Turkish Delight was all finished and Edmund was looking very hard at the empty box and wishing that she would ask him whether he would like some more. Probably the Queen knew quite well what he was thinking…’
—CS Lewis 😱❄️

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E. T. A. Hoffmann´s The Nutcracker and the Mouse King illustrated by Gennady Spirin

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Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change—not a knocker, but Marley’s face.

~Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

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's wonderful illustrations for 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens

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Jólakötturin - Iceland’s Yule Cat. A huge, ferocious black cat who searches for anyone who has no new clothes to wear on Christmas Eve. Upon finding such a wretch the feline greedily gobbles them up, swallowing them whole, before resuming the hunt for others.

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Lucia Day on December 13 is a Scandinavian festival of light that is rooted in Norse winter solstice celebrations, and was originally associated with Lussi, a troll-like creature of folklore. Nowadays the celebration centers around the Sicilian St. Lucia.

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