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If one heard a pitiful “meow”
Something evil would happen soon.
Everybody knew he hunted men
But didn’t care for mice.

🖼️ Mia H ()
📜 "The Yule Cat" by Johannes ur Kotlum

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According to a Flemish folktale a woman who was thought to be a witch only left her house during the winter months. It's said she gave her neighbours a fright by gifting them enchanted apples that would dance during the night.

🎨Alla Tsank

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“Onion skins, very thin.
Mild winter coming in;
Onion skin is thick and tough.
Coming winter, cold and rough.“ - An Old English rhyme.

Is there any truth in this old adage? If you “know your onions” I’d be interested to learn more!

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Kappa are aquatic, reptilian humanoids that inhabit the rivers and streams flowing over Japan. They are generally the size and shape of a human child, yet despite their small stature, they are physically stronger than a grown man.

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An event with Kirsty Hartsiotis author of 'Gloucestershire Folk Tales for Children' is at The Museum in the Park in Gloucestershire on Sunday 18th of December.

More details of tickets here: https://t.co/mRquL7i0S8

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In Germanic folklore Holda/Frau Holle, the Dark Grandmother and White Lady reigns over the dark, cold months of winter. It is said that, it is, she who causes the snow to fall, – whenever she shakes out her feather pillow. It would seem she’s been busy of late.

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Snow Woman, by Tirzah Garwood, (1908-51). The wife of she was a painter & engraver whose career went quiet during her marriage, but was resumed in the 1940s following her husband’s death.

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Christa helps everyone just settle down a little. Go check out today's update for tips on conflict resolution!

https://t.co/be9iGJgW0J

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SHAPES, I LOVED SHAPED POKÉMON Oh my gosh and so many fit that category, I love the Kappa folklore from Lombre and how fluid celebi’s shape is,, just a little onion guy ;-;

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✨Folklore Collection✨
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Do you like Norse Mythology?

1. Gold of Freyr
2. Power of Loki
3. Freyja's Falcon Cloak
4. The Norse Goddess Skadi
⬇️Link

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Deda Mraz in Eastern Slavic folklore is a winter spirit who looks like a greyish old man made of snow & wind with a staff made of an icicle that he taps on surfaces that begin to crackle, as they turn to frost, waters turn to ice, as he paints the winterscapes.

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Lucia Day on December 13 is a Scandinavian festival of light that is rooted in Norse winter solstice celebrations, and was originally associated with Lussi, a troll-like creature of folklore. Nowadays the celebration centers around the Sicilian St. Lucia.

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Tonight is the night of Lussi, a demonic creature of Norwegian folklore. She will ride across the sky with Åsgårdsreia, an entourage consisting of supernatural beings and the ghosts of sinners. They will punish everyone who is late with their Yule preparations.

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Oh Northern light!
Cleave this deathless night
Lingering above embroidering the sky
Oh Northern light!
Weave the wispy haze
To behold that eerie beauty in a daze
Painting the Heaven's Vault
My song and art "Northern Lights"
Listen here:
https://t.co/OLmjRAcG8I

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December's

We have a family tradition of telling ghost stories over the Festive period. I write about it's origin - the Banshee encounter, and tell a few Cumbrian folk tales also

https://t.co/t2GbnlIC9S

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Dark Beira, the Winter Queen was very old and her anger could be as strong and bitter as the cold north wind and as wild and unforgiving as the storm laden sea. Every winter Beira reigned but as spring approached her subjects grew restless https://t.co/feXM9y6Bps

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Once the snow yearned for colour as it had none, & the shy little snowdrop showed it a great kindness by offering up its colour when all the brighter flowers had sneeringly refused. In return the protects the from the harshness of

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In Cumbrian dialect, 'hollin' is holly

During the winter months holly is brought into the home to protect it from malevolent faeries, or allow benevolent ones to shelter therein without friction with the human hosts


art: John Anster Fitzgerald

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Morana is the feared one. Eastern Slavs Goddess of Winter, death, pestilence, disease, ruling over the dark time of year, bringing coldness with her frosty countenance. She lives in a mirrored palace where two bottomless streams meet, guarded by serpents. ❄️🐍❄️

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