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“Schwingerl voll Darm! Basket full of guts!”, Bloody Lucy cries, St Lucia's dark aspect, walking the fringes of the Bavarian Forest in the dark of Old Midwinter, now St Lucy’s Eve, disembowelling the little ones she catches, filling her schwingerl with their guts

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2021-12-13

In Austria, St. Lucia’s Eve was a time when special danger from witchcraft was feared and averted by prayer and incense which was carried through each house and every room...



🎨Bauer

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2021-12-12

According to Norwegian folklore, tonight is the night of Lussi, a female creature with demonic traits. Lussi rode with Åsgårdsreia, the Norwegian version of the Wild Hunt, and her job was to punish people who didn't do their Yule preparations correctly.

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2021-12-12

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”

Edvard Munch was born 1863 in Ådalsbruk

🎨 "Madonna" (1894)

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2021-12-12

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I've decided that everything rhymes with tentacles.

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2021-12-11

Victorian Christmas cards were a bit creepy...

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2021-12-11

For those who need no introduction: May the sun never shine upon your shadows......

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2021-12-10

Witches are rumoured to be especially active during and out to harm livestock. For protection, farmers put iron knives in mangers, the goodwife blew into cattle’s nostrils, made the sign of the cross over them and brooms were put before stable doors.

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2021-12-10

Norwegians used to believe that the dreams you had the night before Christmas, could reveal who would die in the next year. Therefore many people avoided sleeping altogether and stayed awake all night, preferring not to know about anyone's death in advance.

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2021-12-09

THE SNOW QUEEN'S MIRROR makes anything good in the world appear bad & all that is evil & worthless seem attractive. If a fragment enters your eye you will see only faults, if a splinter enters your heart it will turn to ice
🎨T.Pym

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2021-12-08

Christmas Goblin
Josué Macías✍️

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2021-12-08

❄️ The Yule Goat ❄️by David Procter.

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2021-12-07

on Day seven- Durosimi the malign sorcerer and vampire to be. (and...something that rhymes with seven. )

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2021-12-07

In the Borders, there dwells the Gyr-Carling, a witch, some say, a downright ogress, all agree, greedy ‘vpoun Christiane menis flesche’. During Christmastide, long-nebbed Gyr-Carling enters homes to steal all knitting unfinished until New Year!

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2021-12-07

E. T. A. Hoffmann wrote "Der Sandmann," who threw sand in kid's eye in order to collect them to feed his children on the moon while, Hans Christian Andersen's "Ole Lukøje" carried two umbrellas with dreams for good children & no dreams for bad children.
🖼️Kat Lowry

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2021-12-07

Our fascination with ghostly Christmas tales goes back thousands of years and is rooted in ancient celebrations of the winter solstice.
In the depths of winter, Pagan traditions included a belief in a ghostly procession..
More: https://t.co/J8sUTmJd9O

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2021-12-07

Be careful that you don't discard your old "unwanted" toys this Christmas - they may come to life & teach you a lesson...



'A Christmas Dream / Vánoční sen' (1945) dir. Karel Zeman, Bořivoj Zeman.

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2021-12-06