RT @OGOMProject@twitter.com

Jólakötturinn, or Yule Cat: In Iceland, this giant black cat arrives on Christmas Eve and eats anyone who did not receive new clothes for Christmas, The Yule Cat may be connected to the troll cat conjured to aid evil magic makers.
(Image: IrenHorrors, DeviantArt).
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Fact check: true!

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Folklore says that today barn gnomes (nisser/tomtar) all over Scandinavia must get their much anticipated Yule porridge with lots of butter, accompanied by traditional Yule ale. If they don't get their meal, all hell breaks loose.

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#GothicAdvent Day 27:

Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/XKRQHI5pjeo

#AChristmasCarol, Stave Five, The End of It

A Christmas Carol, Adapted, Directed and Produced by Paul A.T. Wilson

Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Delightful Boy: Freddie Holme
Driver: Paul A.T. Wilson
Fred: Philip Barker
Bob Cratchit: Richard Heaven
Tiny Tim: George Wilson

Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

#audiobooks #Christmas #ChristmasEve #Dickens

@audiobooks
@folklore

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The Yuletide nights are really dark in Scandinavia and were thought to be a time of magic, mystery and danger. According to folklore the supernatural creatures that dwell underground in the forest, will come out of their realm and wander around in the darkness.

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#GothicAdvent Day 26:

#AChristmasCarol Stave Four, The last of the Sprits, Part Two
Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/V5BceG8WYnA
Adapted, Directed and Produced by Paul A.T. Wilson

Caroline: Laura Holme
Caroline’s Husband: Jai Brewer
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Bob Cratchit: Richard Heaven
Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: Himself

Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

#Christmas #audiobooks

@audiobooks
@folklore

#Celtic #FolkloreThursday: In #Scotland the goddess of winter is called Cailleach Bheur.
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`

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After Cailleach Bheur, the blue-faced crone-goddess of Winter, washes her great plaid in Scotland’s Gulf of Corryvreckan, it turns white and becomes a blanket of snow that covers the land. She is the protectress of wild animals during winter
#FairytaleTuesday #GothicAdvent

#GothicAdvent Day 25

A Christmas Carol, By Charles Dickens.

Stave Four, The last of the Spirits, Part One

Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/nd5e2LQGi3A

A Christmas Carol, Adapted, Directed and Produced by Paul A.T. Wilson

Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come: Himself
Man one: Simon Bucher-Jones
Man Two: Jai Brewer
Charwoman: Marilyn Bersey
Old Joe: Paul A.T. Wilson
Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson

Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

#Christman #AChristmasCarol #Dickens #Audiobook #audiobooks #ghost #GhostStory

@audiobooks

#GothicAdvent Day 24

A Christmas Carol, Stave Three, The Second of the Three Sprits, Part Two

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A Christmas Carol, Adapted, Directed and Produced by Paul A.T. Wilson

Fred: Philip Barker
Fred’s Wife: Laura Holme
Ghost of Christmas Present: Andrew Butcher
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson

Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

#audiobooks #audiobook #Podcast #Dickens #Christmas

@audiobooks
@folklore

A little #GothicAdvent action -- here is a little preview of my next project.

The story of Molly Downer, the Witch of #Brading -- her tragic life of lost love, betrayal and persecution.

#IsleOfWight #MollyDowner #Witch #Musical #Folklore #Magic #LGBTQ #FolkHorror #Horror #Witchcraft #Pagan

@folklore @pagan @paganism

#GothicAdvent Day 23:

#AChristmasCarol, Stave Three, The Second of the Three Sprits, Part One

Listen For FREE: https://youtu.be/tVTrIiGb4X8

Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Scrooge: Olly Fry
Ghost of Christmas Present: Andrew Butcher
Mrs Cratchit: Emma Turner
Belinda Cratchit: Naeve Hunter
Martha Cratchit: Laura Holme
Bob Cratchit: Richard Heaven
Tiny Tim: George Wilson

Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

#audiobooks #audiobook #Podcast #Dickens #Christmas

@audiobooks @folklore

#GothicAdvent Day 22:

#AChristmasCarol Stave Two: The First of the Spirits, Part Two

Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/BuFZ-EYaGm0

Adapted, Directed and Produced by Paul A.T. Wilson
Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Ghost of Christmas Past: Jack Brading
Belle: Emma Turner
Belle’s Husband: Paul A.T. Wilson
Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

#audiobooks #audiobook #Podcast #Dickens

@audiobooks @folklore

'Monster,' Elizabeth Macneal: 'Little seal breaths. The slap of flippers. [...] When Victor stares at the painting of the selkie, he is certain he can see her eyes flickering, the skin beginning to peel from her throat.' #GothicAdvent day 18
Sources: story from The Haunting Season (Sphere, 2021)
🎨 Mary and Angus Hogg, Selkie at Culzean Country Park

Walisische Weihnachtstradition: Man geht mit einem Pferdeschädel auf einem Stock bon Haus zu Haus und bekommt dann Essen angeboten. Spooky, oder?

RT @OGOMProject@twitter.com

MARI LWYD: A Welsh Christmas tradition, the name may come from 'grey mare' or 'grey mary'. People go from door-to-door holding a horse's skull on a stick covered in a white sheet and with eyes of lights. The Mari Lwyd would be offered food and drink at each house.
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One of the most bizarre Yuletide superstitions is the Icelandic Yule Cat Jolakatturinn, a giant cat who eats children who did not recieve new clothes in time for Christmas #SuperstitionSat @SuperstitionSat@twitter.com #GothicAdvent

#GothicAdvent Day 20:

A #Christmas #Carol, Stave Two: The First of the #spirits Part One

Listen for FREE: https://youtu.be/BOPU8ga8qXY

Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Ghost of Christmas Past: Jake Brading
Fan: Naeve Hunter
Fezziwig: Paul A.T. Wilson

Music: David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson

Copyright 2021, This production is published under the International Creative Commons Attribution Licence version 4

The curtains of the bed were drawn aside; starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, Scrooge found himself face to face with the unearthly visitor who drew them.

It was a strange figure -- like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions.

#audiobooks #audiobook #Podcast #Dickens

@audiobooks
@folklore

#GothicAdvent Day 19:

A #Christmas #Carol - Stave One, Part Two

Listen here -- FREE : https://youtu.be/MHhrmRsUvIY

CAST:
Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Jacob Marley: Simon Bucher-Jones

PRODUCTION:
Music David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson
Director/Producer: Paul A.T. Wilson

Quite satisfied, he closed his door, and locked himself in; double locked himself in, which was not his custom. Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his nightcap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel.

@audiobooks
@folklore

#audiobooks #audiobook #Podcast #Dickens

https://youtu.be/MHhrmRsUvIY

The 13th Zodiac

The path the sun traces across the sky crosses over constellations we associate with the zodiac. Which constellation the sun was in when you were born defines your “zodiac sign”. But when astronomers defined the constellation boundaries they added a 13th zodiac one. From roughly November 30th to December 16th the sun is in Ophiuchus - a large, beautiful constellation of a person holding a snake. Do you know anyone who is an Ophiuchian?

#astronomy #astrology #GothicAdvent

Bells have always had a place in folklore and customs from calling worshippers to Churches and temples, to warding off evil spirits or warning of an attack!

The winter months especially are regarded as full of evil spirits which is why a lot European countries have 'bellringers' to mark the end of a dark winter and renewal of spring.

The Zvončari (Bellman) of Rijeka, Croatia travel from village to village ringing their bells in order to scare away the evil spirits of winter. In the Alpine regions of Austria, Switzerland and Bavaria, we have the Glöckler and Perchten! In Scandinavia, bells are thought to be one of the reasons trolls were frightened off.

🖼️Ivan Čupić

#gothic #GothicAdvent #folklore #customs #europe #traditions #yule

#GothicAdvent Day 18:

A Christmas Carol - Stave One, Part One

Link to List: https://youtu.be/NLdydBt2ees

Full cast audio drama of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Adapted for audio by Paul A.T. Wilson

CAST:
Narrator: Paul A.T. Wilson
Fred: Philip Barker
Scrooge: Oliver Fry
Gentleman One: Jai Brewer
Gentleman Two: Paul A.T. Wilson
Bob Cratchit: Richard Heaven

PRODUCTION:
Music David Pudney
Sound Design: Paul A.T. Wilson
Director/Producer: Paul A.T. Wilson

Marley was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge's name was good upon anything.

Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice.

#audiobooks #audiobook #ghosts #Dickens

@folklore @folklorethursday @audiobooks

https://youtu.be/NLdydBt2ees

E.F. Benson, 'Caterpillars': 'they were squeezing through the cracks of it and dropping one by one through the keyhole, elongating themselves into mere string as they passed, and growing fat and lumpy again on emerging.' #GothicAdvent Day 15