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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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A Very Victorian Christmas filled with ghost sightings.

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Andersen's "The Snow Queen, 1844 (Danish: Snedronningen) can travel throughout the world with the snow.
Art by me
Here my music video "Cold Winter" inspired by Snow Maidens
https://t.co/9v45y00QoI

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Little Jack Frost tripped round and round.
Spreading white snow on the frozen ground ;
Nipping the breezes, icing the streams,
And chilling the warmth of the sun's bright beams.

Little Jack Frost
Charles Sangster 1875

Helen Jacobs 1930

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At the bottom of the frozen Arctic Ocean lives Sedna with her many sea creature children, born of her blood when she was mercilessly sacrificed to the cold depths. Now she dwells in those waters, ready to claim any soul that enters her domain.

🖼️: A. Galbraith

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Skadi is the goddess of snow and the mountains, the isolated lady who loves wild places in the Scandinavian north which takes her name. She loves the sea, but misses her mountain home when she visits it.

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In the most famous story, the Yuki-onna reveals herself as the wife of the woodcutter whom she spared years earlier, but in other tales she is the owner of the home the elderly couple stay at, the mysterious auntie of children, or merely a wanderer.

🖼️: Syllie

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Disney’s Frozen originally portrays the Snow Queen as a woman frightened by her power. But as the film goes on and she learns to control her abilities and it becomes clear that she has a good heart.

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Hans Christian Andersen’s Snow Queen barely appears in the story despite being the titular character. Her motives are unclear and left ambiguous leaving us wondering if she was good or bad

🖼️Polina Yakovleva

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THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. 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
🎨T.Pym

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It’s said Yuki-onna, a snow spirit in Japanese lore, lost her life in a snowstorm & now “ruthlessly kills unsuspecting mortals.” Tales vary from her being satisfied by a mere death to those of her being vampire-like & taking the life
force from her victims.

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Today is the feast of St Nicholas, a 3rd century saint who sold all his possessions to help the poor. He was known for giving gifts in secret, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him, and so became the inspiration for Santa Claus.

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