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(Image: Snow Queen by Rudolf Koivu)

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2020-11-26

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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2020-11-26

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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2020-11-26

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.


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2020-11-26

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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2020-11-26

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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2020-11-26

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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2020-11-26

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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2020-11-26

Warners & Lea and Loreto

Am I allowed to give these small kids some adoptive parents? You know what, I think I will :)

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2020-11-25

In Ojibwe lore, Memegwaans are tiny humanoids who are terrified of adults; vanishing if they see one. However, they human Helping any children who are upset, injured, scared, or lonely; protecting them until help arrives.

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2020-11-20

New Gods of the Fourth World

When Jack Kirby left Marvel for DC, he created New Gods as a direct sequel to Norse myths he adapted for Marvel's Thor

My article on connections btw Kirby's opus + myths that fascinated him:

https://t.co/Eem373orOm

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2020-11-20

Slavic tale "The Good Ferryman"
3 sons inherit a ferry boat, but when the youngest's kind heart is rewarded with magical gifts, his bros trick + rob him. He bounces back, then the king covets his beautiful wife
https://t.co/O1Gbh3RNV6

🎨 Cecile Walton c. 1920

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2020-11-20

Compelled to open the closet door, inside Ivan finds a weak old man bound in chains. The old man asks for water, which he gulps down, enabling him to break his chains and flee - revealing himself to be the wicked sorcerer, Koschei the Deathless.

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2020-11-20

A child born to the Trojan royal house before nightfall would bring ruin to the whole of Troy: but King Priam and Queen Hecuba could not kill their son. So Priam left the boy with a shepherd, who abandoned him. Suckled by a she-bear, the child Paris survived.

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2020-11-20

Prophesied to die at the hands of his grandson by his daughter, King Acrisius of Argos and locked his daughter away. Zeus impregnated her as golden light, so Acrisius made a choice: rather than kill his daughter and grandson Perseus, he cast them to the sea.

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2020-11-19

- Boys used to be clothed in dresses for ease in toilet training, but (it is said in certain circles) also to confuse spirits who might steal them away! Paining of Henry Gibbs by Freake-Gibbs - Boston 1670

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2020-11-19

John Duncan's critically acclaimed 1914 depiction of 'The Children of Lir', an episode in Irish Mythology in which a group of divine children are transformed into swans.

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2020-11-19