Bolo Rei is a Yule dessert sold in Portugal, usually with a a dried bean and metal charm hidden in the dough before food safety laws.
Finding the charm meant good luck for the coming year and the bean, that you'd be the one buying the cake next year.
Finding the charm meant good luck for the coming year and the bean, that you'd be the one buying the cake next year.
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One of the lesser known companions of Father Christmas in Eastern France is Pere Fouetard 'The Whipping Father', who would use a whip or switch to punish naughty children.
One could even say that he is the anti-hero of the ghost of Christmas Present in the 1843 Christmas novella “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens.
One could even say that he is the anti-hero of the ghost of Christmas Present in the 1843 Christmas novella “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens.
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Forwarded from Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)
Yuletide & The Good Women
In German Folklore and across Europe there is tell especially at Yuletide of Female Spirits coming house to house in a procession of the dead. These spirits were often ancestors though they would appear in the form of Weisse Frauen or through Christian Eyes devils. This is especially noted in the example of the Good Women who would go door to door receiving feasts as offerings to the dead and consuming the spirit of the food before the living would eat the physical side. The Good Women were also said to weave fate for new borns and spinning tools were left out for the Good Women to spin fate for the newborn. While similar to the Norns these spirits are specifically mentioned as ancestors, though the Church via a tale of St. Germanicus is said to have "Exposed" them as demons. In a Hagiography intended to vilify this widespread pagan custom. A similar honoring of Feminine Ancestors can be seen in the Norse Disir Blot.-TLK
In German Folklore and across Europe there is tell especially at Yuletide of Female Spirits coming house to house in a procession of the dead. These spirits were often ancestors though they would appear in the form of Weisse Frauen or through Christian Eyes devils. This is especially noted in the example of the Good Women who would go door to door receiving feasts as offerings to the dead and consuming the spirit of the food before the living would eat the physical side. The Good Women were also said to weave fate for new borns and spinning tools were left out for the Good Women to spin fate for the newborn. While similar to the Norns these spirits are specifically mentioned as ancestors, though the Church via a tale of St. Germanicus is said to have "Exposed" them as demons. In a Hagiography intended to vilify this widespread pagan custom. A similar honoring of Feminine Ancestors can be seen in the Norse Disir Blot.-TLK