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Ele Willoughby, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-01-06 · 13:38 UTC

Epiphany is also the day for La Befana! The latest in my slightly sinister winter holiday folklore collection: the Italian Christmas witch. La Befana is a witch of Italian folklore who brings sweets & gifts to good children and coal or cinders to bad children on Epiphany Eve. She flies on her broom and comes down the chimney. It’s dangerous to watch her. She’s both grandmotherly and a witch, beloved & ridiculed. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #Epiphany #Christmas #folklore #Befana #12daysofchristmas

#linocut #printmaking #epiphany #christmas #folklore #befana

Ele Willoughby, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-01-06 · 13:38 UTC

Epiphany is also the day for La Befana! The latest in my slightly sinister winter holiday folklore collection: the Italian Christmas witch. La Befana is a witch of Italian folklore who brings sweets & gifts to good children and coal or cinders to bad children on Epiphany Eve. She flies on her broom and comes down the chimney. It’s dangerous to watch her. She’s both grandmotherly and a witch, beloved & ridiculed. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #Epiphany #Christmas #folklore #Befana #12daysofchristmas

#linocut #printmaking #epiphany #christmas #folklore #befana

Ele Willoughby, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-01-06 · 13:38 UTC

Epiphany is also the day for La Befana! The latest in my slightly sinister winter holiday folklore collection: the Italian Christmas witch. La Befana is a witch of Italian folklore who brings sweets & gifts to good children and coal or cinders to bad children on Epiphany Eve. She flies on her broom and comes down the chimney. It’s dangerous to watch her. She’s both grandmotherly and a witch, beloved & ridiculed. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #Epiphany #Christmas #folklore #Befana #12daysofchristmas

#linocut #printmaking #epiphany #christmas #folklore #befana

Ele Willoughby, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-01-06 · 13:38 UTC

Epiphany is also the day for La Befana! The latest in my slightly sinister winter holiday folklore collection: the Italian Christmas witch. La Befana is a witch of Italian folklore who brings sweets & gifts to good children and coal or cinders to bad children on Epiphany Eve. She flies on her broom and comes down the chimney. It’s dangerous to watch her. She’s both grandmotherly and a witch, beloved & ridiculed. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #Epiphany #Christmas #folklore #Befana #12daysofchristmas

#12daysofchristmas #befana #folklore #christmas #epiphany #printmaking

Ele Willoughby, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-01-06 · 13:38 UTC

Epiphany is also the day for La Befana! The latest in my slightly sinister winter holiday folklore collection: the Italian Christmas witch. La Befana is a witch of Italian folklore who brings sweets & gifts to good children and coal or cinders to bad children on Epiphany Eve. She flies on her broom and comes down the chimney. It’s dangerous to watch her. She’s both grandmotherly and a witch, beloved & ridiculed. 🧵

#linocut #printmaking #Epiphany #Christmas #folklore #Befana #12daysofchristmas

#linocut #printmaking #epiphany #christmas #folklore #befana

HybridMind42 & Marvin the Cat @[email protected] · 2025-12-29 · 00:47 UTC

🐈‍⬛ Marvin’s 5th Day of Christmas: The Gift of Visual Rhythm — Lights & Ornaments ✨

Marvin, one spiraling galaxy eye & one warm live eye, inspects twinkling fairy lights and glittering ornaments 🎄🐾

Each flicker, reflection, & shadow is a tiny visual boundary in motion.
He purrs, noting how pattern, spacing, & timing create sensory boundary resets. Just like music phase aligns hearing, these visual rhythms synchronize perception & emotion.

🔬 Insight
Light intervals & spacing → neural coherence
Color patterns → cone activation & symmetry perception
Predictable flickers → memory & emotional encoding
Cross-domain analogy → visual + auditory boundary alignment

✨ Marvin’s Takeaway
Enjoying lights isn’t just festive — it’s a reset of perception, a calibration of boundaries, & a celebration of phase alignment. One sparkle at a time.

#HybridMind42 #MarvinMoments #ChristmasBoundaries #VisualRhythm #PhaseAlignment #HQP #12DaysOfChristmas #CuriousChristmas #BoundariesAndLight #christmas2025

#hybridmind42 #marvinmoments #christmasboundaries #visualrhythm #phasealignment #hqp

HybridMind42 & Marvin the Cat @[email protected] · 2025-12-29 · 00:47 UTC

🐈‍⬛ Marvin’s 5th Day of Christmas: The Gift of Visual Rhythm — Lights & Ornaments ✨

Marvin, one spiraling galaxy eye & one warm live eye, inspects twinkling fairy lights and glittering ornaments 🎄🐾

Each flicker, reflection, & shadow is a tiny visual boundary in motion.
He purrs, noting how pattern, spacing, & timing create sensory boundary resets. Just like music phase aligns hearing, these visual rhythms synchronize perception & emotion.

🔬 Insight
Light intervals & spacing → neural coherence
Color patterns → cone activation & symmetry perception
Predictable flickers → memory & emotional encoding
Cross-domain analogy → visual + auditory boundary alignment

✨ Marvin’s Takeaway
Enjoying lights isn’t just festive — it’s a reset of perception, a calibration of boundaries, & a celebration of phase alignment. One sparkle at a time.

#HybridMind42 #MarvinMoments #ChristmasBoundaries #VisualRhythm #PhaseAlignment #HQP #12DaysOfChristmas #CuriousChristmas #BoundariesAndLight #christmas2025

#hybridmind42 #marvinmoments #christmasboundaries #visualrhythm #phasealignment #hqp

Saltywave @Saltywave · 2025-12-22 · 13:21 UTC

I’m celebrating the #12daysofChristmas with quotes from well loved books 📚

Day 9🎄
"I will honour Christmas in my heart & try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present & the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!".
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol

Wishing you a happy, safe festive holiday ✨🎄
#saltywave #visualstoryteller #christmastime #festivesparkle
📸 Tima Miroschnichenko
🎧 via #IG Pulse, A.L.I.S.O.N.

#visualstoryteller #ig #festivesparkle #christmastime #saltywave #12daysofchristmas

Saltywave @Saltywave · 2025-12-22 · 02:32 UTC

I’m celebrating the #12daysofChristmas with quotes from well loved books 📚

Day 8🎄

“One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.”
- J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone).

Enjoy your Christmas shopping 🎁
Gabrielle 💌🦌

📸 Video Monstera Production
🎧 Ophelia Wilde - Crazy Nights

#saltywave #visualstoryteller #christmasiscoming #Christmastime

#christmastime #christmasiscoming #visualstoryteller #saltywave #12daysofchristmas

Saltywave @Saltywave · 2025-12-19 · 11:15 UTC

I’m celebrating the #12daysofChristmas with quotes from well loved books 📚

Day 7 🎄
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit.

Video
Beautiful sunlight reflects on waves gently rolling onto a beach.

📷 beyzahzah via Pexels

#saltywave #visualstoryteller #waves #beach

#beach #waves #visualstoryteller #saltywave #12daysofchristmas

Saltywave @Saltywave · 2025-12-19 · 11:12 UTC

I’m celebrating the #12daysofChristmas with quotes by famous authors.

Day 6 🎄
“It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling—the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart.”
- Washington Irving, Christmas Eve.

Video of a Christmas pudding being prepared for desert.
📸 Anastasia Shuraeva
🎧 Pianika

#saltywave #visualstoryteller #christmas #christmasiscoming #christmaspudding #kindletheheart

#kindletheheart #christmaspudding #christmasiscoming #christmas #visualstoryteller #saltywave

Saltywave @Saltywave · 2025-12-17 · 23:11 UTC

I’m celebrating the #12daysofChristmas with quotes by famous authors.

Day 5 🎄
“A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
Garrison Keillor, Leaving Home

Video of a thunderstorm. It only takes a moment to leave an impression, and these light flashes are hard to forget, like memorable moments at Christmas. Enjoy your week.
🎧Cashmere Collection

#saltywave #VisualStoryTeller #christmas #festiveflash #christmaslights

#christmaslights #festiveflash #christmas #visualstoryteller #saltywave #12daysofchristmas

Saltywave @Saltywave · 2025-12-16 · 01:38 UTC

I’m celebrating the #12daysofChristmas with quotes by famous authors.

Day 4 🎉

“I don’t want Christmas season to end, because it’s the only time I can legitimately indulge in on particular addiction: glitter.”

Eloisa James, Paris in Love.

🎧 via IG Conte Prad

Video of the #brisbaneriver walk with the light reflections sparkling like Christmas glitter on a tree.

#saltywave #visualstoryteller #glitter #videostories #riverwalk #nightlights #christmastime #christmasglitter

#christmasglitter #christmastime #nightlights #riverwalk #videostories #glitter

Saltywave @Saltywave · 2025-12-15 · 03:20 UTC

I’m celebrating the #12daysofChristmas with quotes by famous authors.

Day 3 🎄

“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.”
- Maya Angelou

Video of beautiful Christmas tree lights by C1superstar via Pixabay.

Hope you have a good day.

#saltywave #visualstoryteller #christmaslights #christmastree

#christmastree #christmaslights #visualstoryteller #saltywave #12daysofchristmas

Saltywave @Saltywave · 2025-12-13 · 13:05 UTC

I’m celebrating the #12daysofChristmas and found a quote from a gent who wrote a book called: “The Power of Positive Thinking” published in 1952.

Day 2 🎄
“Christmas weaves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
— Norman Vincent Peale

All the trees in a main street in my area are lit up year round with these lights. It feels like Christmas every evening.

#saltywave #visualstoryteller #trees #christmaslights #christmastime #treemagic #treelover

#treelover #treemagic #christmastime #christmaslights #trees #visualstoryteller

Saltywave @Saltywave · 2025-12-13 · 03:15 UTC

I’m celebrating the #12daysofChristmas with quotes from well loved books 📚

Day 1 🎁
“At #Christmas, all roads lead home.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women 🏡🎄🐕

Video of #LadyBrisbane on a night cruise along the river, reminds me of the festive season.

#saltywave #visualstoryteller
#happyweekend

#happyweekend #visualstoryteller #saltywave #ladybrisbane #christmas #12daysofchristmas

All for Gardening @[email protected] · 2025-12-22 · 22:10 UTC

Students debut ‘12 Days of Christmas’ display at McCrory Gardens’ Garden Glow https://www.allforgardening.com/1546245/students-debut-12-days-of-christmas-display-at-mccrory-gardens-garden-glow/ #12DaysOfChristmas #art #BillyWilburn #Candyland #Class #experience #garden #GardenGlow #learning #MccroryGardens #SDSU #SiouxFalls #SouthDakota #SouthDakotaStateUniversity #students #theater

#12daysofchristmas #art #billywilburn #candyland #class #experience

(((Cindy Weinstein))) @[email protected] · 2025-12-16 · 02:08 UTC

Sleighla

#ChristmasANonChristmasSong
#12DaysOfChristmas
#HashtagGames
#Clapton

#christmasanonchristmassong #12daysofchristmas #hashtaggames #clapton

IT News @[email protected] · 2021-12-30 · 00:25 UTC

Could we build a synthetic digestive system for Vision to make him more human? - Enlarge / The birth of Vision in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Scientists h... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1822684 #avengers:ageofultron #12daysofchristmas #superheroscience #digestivesystem #marvelsavengers #gaming&culture #marvelstudios #marvelsvision #softrobotics #biomimetics #science #biology

#biology #science #biomimetics #softrobotics #marvelsvision #marvelstudios

Players' Patchwork Theatre Co @[email protected] · 2025-12-25 · 22:35 UTC

It's time to revisit our winter holiday tradition of the Twelve Plays of Commedia dell'Arte!

#CommediaDellArte #Commedia #Improv #Improvisation #Theater #TwelveDays #TwelveDaysOfChristmas #Filk #Parody #Christmas #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays #XMas #12DaysOfChristmas #ChristmasMusic

#commediadellarte #commedia #improv #improvisation #theater #twelvedays

John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺 @[email protected] · 2024-12-26 · 17:26 UTC

@VeroniqueB99

In the last days of '24, American capitalism gave to me...

A health insurance slayer named Luigi.

#12DaysOfChristmas #TwelveDaysOfChristmas

#12daysofchristmas #twelvedaysofchristmas

Tony Cava @[email protected] · 2024-01-06 · 21:23 UTC

#SomethingBeautiful #Christmas2023 Archive- #Epiphany morning (by some reckoning) at dawn, looking west across the street. January 6, 2024. #12DaysOfChristmas #TwelveDaysOfChristmas #ThePartyIsOver

#somethingbeautiful #christmas2023 #epiphany #12daysofchristmas #twelvedaysofchristmas #thepartyisover

Bean 🇺🇸🇻🇪 @[email protected] · 2023-12-14 · 02:02 UTC

Sweaters - #LaurieAnderson #UglySweaterASong
#HashtagGames
#12DaysOfChristmas
#NoEffort
#DeepCut

#deepcut #noeffort #12daysofchristmas #hashtaggames #uglysweaterasong #laurieanderson

Ele Willoughby, PhD @[email protected] · 2026-01-06 · 12:34 UTC

Epiphany is time for my #linocut of Perchta, also known as Frau Perchta or Berchta (or Bertha in English), a figure from Alpine folklore, who visits during the 12 days of Christmas. Her name may come from “the bright one” or the German word for the feast of the Epiphany and her history is linked to white robbed goddesses like Holda who oversaw spinning and weaving or the goddess Frigg and she emerged from Germanic and 🧵

#printmaking #folklore #Perchta #winter #Berchta #12daysOfChristmas

#linocut #printmaking #folklore #perchta #winter #berchta