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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...

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2021-12-15

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