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Happy Merry Whatever you choose to celebrate (or not), dearlings & darklings! 🖤


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2021-12-24

"Yule is the tide of specters..."

The Transplanted Ghost: A Christmas Story | Wallace Irwin (1921)


🖼️detail of Souls on the Banks of the Acheron by Adolf Hirschl (c 1898)

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2021-12-24

In winter the Wild Hunt motif provides a spectacular set of ghosts, riding over the countryside stealing souls. In some stories Odin is the leader (leading to some tenuous associations with Santa Claus). Happy Christmas!

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2021-12-24

Edward Gorey Christmas✨

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2021-12-24

on , Malign sorcery and vampirism in perfect harmony...

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2021-12-23

GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME.
The Phantom gravely, silently, approached, shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible save one outstretched hand. 3rd spirit to appear to Scrooge 1843, 1970

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2021-12-23

“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
(Kenneth Grahame "The Wind in the Willows")

🎨 Dave Unwin (1995)

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2021-12-22

on day twenty two, a musical interlude (On a fish powered organ)

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2021-12-22

on

day twenty one- a trip to the library which is inhabited and guarded by Dustcats.

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2021-12-21

Mercury glass Christmas tree ornaments in the shape of owls to symbolise wisdom (or perhaps the desire for it.)

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2021-12-21

I did a talk last year about why people like to tell ghost stories at Christmas/Midwinter. It became a podcast episode, so if you've been wondering that very thing, you can find out here! https://t.co/tBGl69z5rk

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2021-12-20

20) 'SANDY THE TINKER', Charlotte Riddell (1882)
"He was the Evil One; the name seemed to be taken up by the echoes and repeated from rock to rock and crag to crag; the whole air seemed full of that one word; and then a great horror of darkness came about us"

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2021-12-20

"The longest night, return of light,
crisp moon, a thousand stars
bewitched and wished, silver and wise
a symphony of silence."

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2021-12-19

The legend of the Christmas Rose and Madelon is a wonderful and touching tale. It reminds us that during Christmas gift-giving it is the thought that counts, and the most precious gifts are those that come from the heart. More: https://t.co/xMNWuEBypo

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2021-12-19

on day eighteen- an undead pet on a damp romp. (Drury is a *good* dog)

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2021-12-18

In Wales there is a wassailing folk custom using a macabre hobby horse called the Mari Lwyd. The festive horse skeleton travels door-to-door and challenges people to “pwnco” a rhyming battle of wits.
✨ 🎄#YuleFolklore

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