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Find out how the hedgehog ended up with spines and what makes him scuttle so fast 🦔 Discover how pigs saved a prince from leprosy 🐷 Find out why the wealthy lord was so intent on capturing the black fox 🦊 Read more here: https://t.co/1fkJ9jRjIE

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2020-01-09

In China an image of the Kitchen God Zao Jun is kept near the stove. Just before Chinese New Year he reports back to heaven about the household. Families smear his lips with honey so he will only say sweet things.

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2020-01-09


This year, Plough Monday falls on Jan 13, the first Monday after Epiphany, though if it was after Twelfth Night, maybe it should have been last Monday?
Traditionally the beginning of the Agricultural year.

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2020-01-09

At the conclusion of Yule, in the new year, folks shared a toast of Wassail. In England (and at my house) this form of mulled wine was also served in other places in various forms. Scots call it "hot pint" and it is used in a toast to prosperity.

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2020-01-09

Starting to see a few green shoots in the Devon hedgerows and flower beds! 🍃

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2020-01-09

Have you missed us? returns this Thursday with the theme of and (Image via wikimedia commons)

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2020-01-06

Drekavac: From South Slavic mythology, this creature appears at night, especially during the 12 days of Christmas. Coming from the souls of sinful men (or unbaptised children), it predicts death or cattle disease.

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2020-01-03

Peter Nicolai Arbo's 'Wild Hunt of Odin', an artist's impression of the legendary Wild Hunt which took place during the Zwölften or Twelve Nights at the turning of the year!

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2020-01-02

Illustrations for from THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS, humorous tales & poems written by Richard Harris Barham (pen name Thomas Ingoldby)based on actual legends & myths. Compiled into books published from 1840 & illustrated by John Leech, A. Rackham + more

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2020-01-02

In the Ozarks in older times, people believed on Christmas Eve that all animals could talk. It was also said that cows and oxen would kneel

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2019-12-19

And the answer to this week's by Jonathan Swift is:

❄️Snow ❄️

Winners:
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2019-12-13

For Nordic countries Dec. 12th is Lossi long night (after Roman calendar winter solstice), the longest and dangerous night of the year. Lossi checked if you were ready for Yule.. If she caught you outside, you’d be out all night in chaos..
Art R. Yanovskaya.

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2019-12-12

Reminder that the American Santa used to be thought of as about two feet tall, which is how come he can fit down the chimney. 'A *miniature* sleigh and eight *tiny* reindeer' runs the poem. Look how big he is in this early illustration, compared to the chair.

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2019-12-12

It’s the final installment of “The 12 Days of Deeply Disturbing Cards,” and this snowman is losing his spatulas! The celestial body in the background looks pleased with his work. What a Victorian twilight zone!

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2019-12-12

Travel down Trefflepugga Path on a snowy morn'up and you may be confronted by Mirabella, the ganticus sleeping creature witch... Those who solve her puzzle may pass through, those who fail leave their bones to the Long long-nosed krellits...

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2019-12-12

The most ancient of trees, the symbolises death & but also the rebirth of light at the It is Old Magic, dreams, otherworld journeys & connection to ancestors. It is perseverance leading to transformation & renewal. Img: Cicely B.

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