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Hello lovely souls. A little update on the alternative Lynx Effect. He's now called The Keeper of Secrets. In folklore across cultures, the Lynx is associated with secrets. Whatever you're doing, take care, be kind and stay safe.♥️

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2021-12-18

Sorry if the Komeiji's look ape-like. Satori ARE a type of ape-man in Japanese folklore 🥴

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Styled on the ancient auroch, the shaggy Polish Turoń revels on Christmas Eve. He brings magic and mayhem, shaking up normally quiet households by bellowing his songs, chasing girls, jumping on furniture, only to fall dead, rise and begin again.

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2021-12-18

Krampus is a figure in Central & Eastern Alpine folklore who, during Christmas season, scares children who have misbehaved

'Day 5'
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2021-12-18

Wrote this magic system based on Earthsea:
https://t.co/TpWf1mEydU

Framed it into GLoG terms for ease of use. You can recast it, though.

It's freeform, level-less, reeks of folklore, and mostly adjudicated like Kriegspiel. So if you like that sort of thing, check it out.

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2021-12-17

Ok so my own dragonball story it's gonna be focused around Japanese Folklore which is why you'll see Lin in these particular outfits the most considering outside of Dragonball she's Japanese. However I need to call my gods something. Something else than "Gods" Hmmmmm

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2021-12-17

🌿❣️🌿Holly's evergreen leaves and scarlet berries are a symbol of enduring life at the darkest time of the year. A Christmas superstition said that saving a sprig of holly from the decorations each winter would protect the house from being struck by lightning.

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In addition to our titular cryptid, Nessie Baby! features many creatures from Scottish fauna and folklore, including the mythical white stag—seen here taking in the beautiful Loch Ness sunset.🐉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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The Cailleach is the Ancient Earth herself. She is the lichen-covered rocks and the mountain peaks. She is the bared earth covered with snow and frost. She is the Deep Ancestress, veiled by the passage of time. - Liesens, H.

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Industrialization made printing cheaper and more accessible to authors who wrote 'short' stories around this time of year for the masses! Everyone at the time could retell the easy-to-follow structure of a ghost story from memory.
🖼️Robert W. Buss

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2021-12-16

To celebrate the Winter Solstice (grian-stad geamhraidh), it was customary to carve the face of the Cailleach - an old woman associated with winter - into a log and burn it in the hopes of banishing the cold, dark nights.

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The Welsh Mari Lwyd is a horse skull carried on a long pole (with cloak) led around by wassailers. They would knock doors between Christmas Day and Twelfth Night and engage in a rhyming ritual called 'pwnco' in exchange for food and beer

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'Woman and Children by a Snowball, Winter' from the series 'Elegant Beauties and Precious Children' - Kikugawa Eizan, ca. 1810.

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There are similarities between winter festivals throughout history. Tenuous links more by accident than design but shared threads of fire, light in the darkness, revelry, tumbling social order and celebrating the returning sun Solstice blessing

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Dickens likely took inspiration for the chained spectre of Marley from Pliny The Younger's letters. Along with 'the Spirit of Africa' inspiring the other Spirits.
Researching A Christmas Carol for Early Haunts & delving into the story's origins was a treat.

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In Roman mythology, holly was the sacred plant of the god Saturn, and to honor him at the Saturnalia festival, the Romans gave each other gifts of holly wreaths. Christians would place holly wreaths in their houses to avoid detection https://t.co/F0xO6zoD66

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