Christmas and Werewolves

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Christmas and Werewolves

A sample:

“According to 15th century Swedish traveler, diplomat, writer, and cleric Olaus Magnus, in Prussia, Livonia and Lithuania werewolves had a party on Christmas night, and then issued forth to “rage with wondrous ferocity against human beings… for when a human habitation has been detected by them isolated in the woods, they besiege it with atrocity, striving to break in the doors and in the event of doing so, they devour all the human beings, and every animal which is found within.” Too much eggnog? Who knows.”

[ArcLight]

Sounds like my kind of party.

[ArcLight]

I've got this, but I'm too lazy to pull it out and take a picture so I hope this works:

Wolfsbane and Mistletoe:

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More about Christmas and Werewolves

A sample:

In 1555, Swedish archbiship Olaus Magnus wrote “The History of the Northern Peoples”, in which he said that at the festival of Christmas, there was a strange conversion of men into wolves. “There is a gathering of a huge multitude of wolves which have been changed from men, and which during that night rage with such fierceness … that the inhabitants suffer more hurt from them, than they ever do from natural wolves, for these human wolves break down doors … and descend into cellars where they drink out whole tuns (sic) of beer or mead.”

The author of the article clearly does not know that 'tun' means a large cask, equal to eight barrels, or upwards of 500 gallons. I can just imagine the drunken howls coming out of the cellar during that party!

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A Christmas Tree topper



This and other werewolf themed Christmas items can be found at:
www.etsy.com/market/christmas_werewolf

[someoldguy]

Hanukkah overlaps Christmas this year. Jewish holidays move relative to the civil calendar because the Jewish calendar is lunar.

Here is some interesting commentary about the link between being a werewolf and being Jewish.
jewcy.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/whats-jewish-werewolves

[someoldguy]

Not exactly about Christmas and Werewolves but I came across this.



Not sure what is going on here with the kids - or what is about to happen - but I love it!

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♫ Show me the way to go home ♪



(Bastards! They drank ALL the beer!)

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Mom, I'm hungry
Shhh, wait until the sleigh lands

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This picture kept disappearing, maybe too big. Smaller version is attached. Click on thumbnail below.

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18,000 year old frozen puppy found in Siberia
www.cnn.com/travel/article/frozen-puppy-intl-scli-scn/index.html



Does anyone else think this could be the start of 1950s style horror movie?

[someoldguy]

Santa Claus Werewolf Hunter

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