christmas

playlist

food

flavors

• It is unclear why peppermint and Christmas are associated, but that’s a thing. A very cute option:

• nutmeg

giftgiving

we wish to meet with the claus

bring us to the claus

with childlike innocence we will whisper our demands to the claus, lisping them on tongues of wet meat pic.twitter.com/rgfKwnwsZD

— Bo Bolander (@BBolander) December 18, 2020

st. nicholas

If you are celebrating St. Nicholas in a way that doesn’t involve bringing back victims of cannibalism from the dead, expand your horizons.

practices

mari lwyd

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I have the necessary papercraft pattern to make a paper horse skull, which I think should be less alarming to our neighbors. Yet to actually do this properly even once.

lore

the birds at midnight

From “The Hymns and Carols of Christmas”:

Carol of the Birds

El Cant Dels Ocells

Traditional Catalonian Carol Translator Unknown

1. Upon this holy night,
   When God’s great star appears,
   And floods the earth with brightness
   Birds’ voices rise in song
   And warbling all night long
   Express their glad heart’s lightness
   Birds’ voices rise in song
   And warbling all night long
   Express their glad heart’s lightness