#yuletraditions — Public Fediverse posts
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#FolkloreSunday 🎄🕯️👻
On dark Christmas nights, the veil thins. In Victorian England, it was tradition to gather by the fire on Christmas Eve & tell ghost stories—Dickens’ A Christmas Carol is the most famous survivor of this once-widespread custom. Telling “winter tales” until midnight was believed to keep evil spirits at bay while the Saviour was born.#ChristmasGhostStories #YuleTraditions #VictorianChristmas #WinterFolklore
🎨'Scrooge and the ghost of Marley,' by Arthur Rackham.
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#fairytaletuesday
"The #Yuleboar, also known as the #sónargǫltr later known as a #Christmasham has its roots in ancient Germanic tradition known as #Heitstrenging a swearing of oaths, a symbol of abundance the Boar was the centerpiece of the Yule feast. #YuleTraditions🐗🎄 -
A lovely traditional folk song from Hampshire England, sung by Belshazzar’s Feast.
One of the pair, Paul Sartin, sadly died this year. A talent much missed. #folk #yuletraditions https://open.spotify.com/track/4O49laPekm1f8Uueatker1?si=A34cSONKS7WzPg4vWyUtwQ -
This is such a good video. The Heathen celebration of Yule by Ocean Keltoi (is he on Mastodon yet?)
#Heathens #Heathenry #reconstruction #polytheism #Yule #YuleTraditions #YuleLog #Yuletide
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The folklore of Christmas, Yuletide and when to put your tree up and take it down again
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https://dowsingfordivinity.com/2019/11/24/the-yule-tree/
#FolkloreThursday #ChristmasDecorations #ChristmasTrees #YuleTraditions #Yuletide #folklore #Christmas
