The Raven & Daisies Medium

12/16/2025

✨ Many Blessings ✨ to the Dark Irish Witch for sharing this beautiful explanation of Yule 🖤
It is truly a magical time of year...

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12/06/2025

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12/02/2025

🖤 Beautiful!

Mari Lwyd

11/28/2025

We All Dream Differently... 🖤🖤

11/27/2025

🎶🎶 "You Better Not Pout..🎶🎶

In the darker stretch of the year, when the long nights close in and the cold bites harder, the old Alpine tales tell of Krampus. Not the cartoonish monster people share online, but the older figure, half wild spirit, half winter enforcer, who walks beside Saint Nicholas in the high villages of Austria, Bavaria, and parts of the Tyrol.

He’s no “devil” in the Christian sense. He’s older than that, one of those winter beings folded into later traditions. Horned like the mountain goats, furred like the forest’s shadows, he’s the reminder that midwinter once had teeth. While Nicholas rewards the well behaved, Krampus deals with the rest… not out of malice, but out of the old belief that winter demands discipline, preparation and respect.

The clanging of bells, the carved wooden masks, the parades of Krampusläufe, these weren’t just festive spectacles. They were ways to confront the darker side of the season together, to laugh at fear while acknowledging it. A communal rite to keep the cold spirits at bay.

He’s part warning, part guardian, part echo of the wilder winter spirits that once roamed the northern mountains. And as the nights draw in again, it’s easy to see why such a figure endured, a reminder that winter is beautiful, but never entirely tame.
-Woodlarking

10/27/2025

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10/27/2025

🖤💀🖤 Many Thanks to The Wicked Bazaar for a wonderful enchanted evening!!🖤🖤

10/10/2025

10/09/2025

YES!!! ✨🤲✨

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