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🌿❣️🌿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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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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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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Behind Door 16 in our of advent calendar - The Spectral Bear Hunt of Verdley Castle
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The first edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published privately on 16th Dec 1901, when had 250 copies printed as gifts for her family & friends. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was given a copy for his children.

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The Scandinavian festival of St. Lucia’s Day not only celebrates the Christian martyr Lucia of Syracruse, but it also involves Norse pagan traditions, such as lighting fires to ward off evil spirits that emerge during the winter solstice.

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Dongzhi (Winter Arrives) is an East Asian winter solstice festival, of which there are regional variations. Families get together to eat dumplings & tangyuan, drink rice wine, & gather in clan tombs to offer food & drink to their ancestors' spirits.

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We have a new story for you, Prince Behram and his fairy bride, Gul Bano. An unexpected, rather peculiar friendship, and a fleeting romance in lands beyond our world. Happy reading❤️

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In the Book of Enoch, Metatron, the most exalted of the angels, and keeper of records designates Shalgiel as the angel appointed to governance of snow. Also associated with the winter season are the angels Amabael, Ctarari, Farlas and Attaras.

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In the Greek Mythology there are 4 wind gods that represent the 4 seasons. Boreas is the god of the north wind or the god of winter. He comes down from the Thrake mountains bringing icy air and snow each winter.

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The Snow Lion (Tibetan: གངས་སེང་གེ་, gangs seng ge) is a celestial animal of Tibet. It is the emblem of Tibet, representing its snowy mountain ranges and glaciers and may also symbolize power and strength, and fearlessness and joy, east and the earth element.

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Skaði is the Norse goddess of winter. This fierce jötunn is associated with bowhunting, skiing, mountains and snowshoes.

✍️Skadi by Amelia Royce Leonards
Skade (1893) by Carl von Saltza❄️

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Mrzelc is a frost demon from the folklore of Kashubia region. It is a hairy creature with frozen hair. It freezes water in wells and lakes and cow’s milk in udders. It drowns people in airholes and can even freeze the Baltic Sea.

Art by Witold Vargas

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