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bifuriouswaterbender · 6 months

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#christmas #holidays #christmas season #snow #winter #december #i'm in the after halloween camp if anyone's curious

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lauramariescorner · 5 months

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Good morning! 🎄☠️

#christmas #christmas tree #merry christmas #christmas time #christmas season #skeleton #spooky #spooky christmas

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iheartchristmas13 · 5 months

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🎄 I love multi-colored lights 🎅🏻

#christmas #christmas aesthetic #christmas lights #christmas season #christmas trees #santa claus #i heart christmas #christmas time #happy holidays #december #christmas magic #christmas decoration #christmas music

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assassin1513 · 4 months

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🌟⚜️Christmas Dream⚜️🌟

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willtheweaver · 4 months

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Mari Lwyd- Likely a holdover from Wales’s Celtic past, Mari Lwyd is a skeletal horse who goes door to door, challenging people to a duel of verses. Should the homeowner run out of poetry, they must let Mari Lwyd in and treat the specter to the best booze.

Yule Goat- This lone wanderer of Nordic origins takes the form of a goat and travels from house to house, telling rude stories, and hard truths about the people inside. The Yule goat and their ill words can be removed from the house with an offering of food and drink. Today most people will only encounter straw goat effigies, such as the Gavlebocken( which will likely not burn this year, but it is currently being devoured by birds)

Mummers- Masked vagabonds, Mummers communicate either with mumbles, or in song and rhyme. They would ‘entertain’ homeowners with music, or by playing rigged games (gambling with loaded dice is a popular option). These shadowy characters can be placated with food and drink.

Wren hunters- seeing a pattern here? Many of these figures associated with Christmas have their roots in Europe’s pagan traditions. These figures often are associated with death and darkness-two things in abundance in winter. Offerings are made in hope that they and all bad things will go away, and that brighter times will come .The wren hunters are no exception. Coming from Ireland, this would be a group of people who go out hunting for the ‘king of birds’. Afterwards, they go door to door singing and begging for a penny, and (you guessed it), food and drink.

Lord of Misrule- Enough with all the dark thoughts; this last Christmas figure is much more cheerful. Medieval and Tudor England had the tradition of appointing one individual to be in charge of the celebrations. Everyone, from the royal court to the humblest village would have a Lord of Misrule, and being appointed was a great honor (not to mention naughtily subversive in a time where the social hierarchy was strictly enforced)

#poll #christmas season #mari lwyd #yule goat #gavlebocken #Mummers #wren hunters #lord of misrule

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siseliestudio · 5 months

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