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One of the scariest winter folklore characters is the Stalo from Sami folktales. Bigger and more viscous than trolls, they are known to eat everyone and everything. (Art by Fradga).

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2023-01-04

'The Wild Hunt' image occurs in folklore across Europe - wailing ghoslty souls in a hunt across winter skies, said to be led by a figure such as Odin (providing very tenuous claims of links with Santa Claus).

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2022-12-16

Delve deep into holly folklore and tradition and view The Holly Gatherers (1858) watercolour drawing by Frederick James Shields...

https://t.co/wq0zlhGCz6

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2021-12-15

To all our friends in Russia, and beyond, if you are celebrating Christmas today, С Рождеством!



'Новогоднее путешествие / The Christmas Visit / The Christmas Tree / New Year's Trip' (1959) dir. Pyotr Nosov.

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2020-01-07

THE WILD SWANS Fairy tale by Hans Andersen,1838. An evil queen turns her eleven stepsons into and forces them to fly away (they're allowed to become human again by night). A possible influence on Swan Lake 🎨Anadezhda Illarionova; Anne Gilbert; Ian Daniels

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2020-01-05



'The Snow Maiden / снегурочка/ Snegurochka' (1952) dir. Ivan Ivanov-Vano

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2019-12-22

It's re-animated Russian insects getting festive around the tree with Santa; transforming traditional into

'The Insects' Christmas / Rozhdestvo obitateley lesa' (1913) dir. Ladislas Starevich.

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2019-12-15

One of the best snowman films ever made! Animated by the "mother of Czech animation" with her usual remarkable sensitivity:



'Snehulák' (1966) dir. Hermína Týrlová.

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2019-12-10

'Summer Legend' (1986) dir. Françoise Hartman. Based on Mik’maq legend - in order to bring Summer to the North, the great spirit Glooscap must battle & outwit the giant Winter.

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2018-12-18

From the ridiculously talented Hermína Týrlová - the mother of Czech animation - one of our top-favourite Snowman films: 'Snehulák' (1966).

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2018-12-14

Based on Mik’maq legend; in order to bring Summer to the North, the great spirit Glooscap must battle & outwit the giant Winter. 'Summer Legend' (1986) dir. Françoise Hartman.

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2018-01-14

Feeding birds, a tradition originally meant to keep the birds away from crops by appeasing them in winter. In Finnish folklore, birds carried the soul of a person, & guarded their sleep. When a person died, the soul-bird took the soul with them.

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