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Hedgerow weather forecasting:

"Many haws, many snows,
many sloes many cold toes..."


(Flower fairies C M Barker)

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Gohone is the Iroquois deity of winter, a wanderer spreading frost. Depicted as an old man with a walking stick, he brings winter as he wanders through the northern woods of North America. In spring the coming of Adekagagwaa, god of summer, will banish Gohone

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2020-11-26

In the Great Lakes region the Snow Wasset is an unusual creature, growing short legs during the summer which it uses to avoid the light. Once the first snows come however, it sheds these legs to burrow its way through the drifts in search of hibernating prey.

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Jötunheimr, one of the nine worlds of Norse cosmology, is the land of the Jötnar, often wrongly translated as giants in Anglo-Saxon culture.

The Jötnar refers to entities that range from gorgeous to grotesque.



Illus. by Arthur Rackham.

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The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft In Early Medieval Europe said the "Little Ice Age" in Europe was caused by witches.”In northern Alpine regions and in many parts of Central Europe,witches were blamed for meteorological disasters (hail, storms, frost...,"#FolkloreThursday

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If you ever set foot in the Giant Mountains of Central Europe, watch out for a gnome. Be friendly and he will repay you, pointing the way to buried treasures. Mock him and you will pay for he can send lightening, fog or your way! He is Rübezahl.

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🌟THE LIGHTBRINGERS🌟
For we thought we'd share some of folkloric images. Here's Mari Lwyd. A Welsh tradition: a pale horse that stalks villages with a troup of wassailers, its skull adorned with ribbons and winter foliage. https://t.co/xdlUJHQZAF

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"Bread and milk for breakfast,
And woollen frocks to wear,
And a crumb for robin redbreast,
On the cold days of the year."
(✒️Christina Rossetti 🎨 Walter Crane)

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Hey folks, I've made the art for this immersive ARG project. It's themes focus on magic/myth/legends/mystery.
There's a to raise the funds, BUT it's free to explore and engage with for everyone :)
Take a look why not?
https://t.co/UVMC14Fypm

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Thanks for a brilliant start to
This is signing out, but we'll be back for more and folklore in just an hour with the fabulous !

(Image: Snow Queen by Rudolf Koivu)

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Good morning have you heard of Þorri (Thorri)? He is a winter spirit that makes himself known at this time of year. They say he sings the songs of ice and snow and wherever he goes he brings the frost.

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Irish sayings about ❄️! If it snowed Christmas Eve🎅, children told geese being plucked in heaven! New moon lucky omen🌑. Mild weather on Christmas Eve was cause for concern because, "A green Christmas makes a fat churchyard"!😲 ©mistletoediary, my house

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The is mostly an invention of literature, though the impetus may come from the Kuraokami, a white dragon of ancient Japanese that can cause to fall.


(#artist unknown)

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In the fens people would tap an iron plough with a hammer to predict the coming winter. If it gave out a dull boom then sleet and snow were expected. If it gave a ringing sound then frost was coming.

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Morozko (father frost) is the Russian king of winter and sometimes death. When he encounters lost travelers in a snow storm, he's known to test their hearts and according to their answer he either spares them or bleeds the warmth and life out of them.

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Chione was the goddess of snow in Greek mythology. She was a daughter of Boreas, god of the wintry north wind. She was also the consort of Poseidon, god of the sea, & mother of Eumolpus who she threw into the sea (it's ok, Poseidon rescued him)

🎨Jen Hallbrown

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Halcyon days, named for the Kingfisher or ice bird, occur in December. Tranquil weather 15 days before frost the birds build nests near water. Seven days prior to winter solstice, birds made nests from fish bones & 7 days after, they tended to eggs & hatchlings.

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