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Momotarō was born from a giant peach, found floating down a river by a childless woman washing clothes. She & her husband discovered him while trying to open the peach to eat it, which prompted the child to explain he'd been bestowed by the gods to be their son.

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Woodland animals & their young:
Badger – boar, sow & cub
Stoat – jack, jill & kit
Hare – buck, doe, kit
Otter - Dog, bitch, pup
Hedgehog – Boar, sow, hoglet
Fox – Dog, vixen, cub
Deer – buck, hind, faun
Squirrel – buck, doe & pup

(🎨 R Sheppard)

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In the begining, by his will power, Raja Entala, the supreme deity, created 2 giants birds, which in turn, created the sky, the earth, and Lupar River.

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Vivienne Enchanting Merlin, a famous moment for (painting by Arthur Rackham)

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In Poland, finding ancient buried treasure is a folk tale that sometimes comes true! From a story I often heard in childhood. Paul Ranson, “Apple Tree with Red Fruit,” 1902. Zofia “Kolomyjka,” a dance from southeastern Poland and Ukraine, 1927.

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In Ecuador it is New Years Eve tradition to burn scarecrows to banish bad luck and memories no longer wanted.

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2021-12-29

All hail the Yule Goat. A recurring theme in Scandinavian winter traditions is goats. Since Thor rode a magic chariot pulled by immortal goats, is it possible Santa's related to Thor? Chariot = sleigh, goats = reindeer? 🤯🎄🐐
Art: "Julbocken" by John Bauer

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Lokul Frosti also known as Jack Frost or Old Man Winter is the personification of winter

He was known to paint the leaves brown, red, and gold in the fall and then paint the frost on windows during the winter months. Lokul also guards the mountains

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Instead of a magnetic accelerator cannon, the Mulsanne-class frigate features a directed energy weapon, the Brightlance reflex laser. These frigates have served in multiple battles in the post-war era, including the conflict on Zeta Halo.

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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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