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Host Your Own Álfablót

Now that you have all your ducks in a row for the Christmas holidays you may feel like doing something quiet tonight before the festive revels really kick off, and what better way to spend your evening than hosting a Álfablót for the elves of your region? It’s exactly the right time of year. People rarely…

Holly & Ivy & Horned Gods

The traditional celebrations of Yule involve so many of the minor and major gods with their associated traditions/symbolism and multiple identities that to the casual observer it looks like a cross between a class reunion, a family party, and one of those horror stories where people go walking down long dark hallways and meet themselves…

Transform Festively For Free

For some of us mere wage slaves, the workplace can be a rather sterile environment at this time of year. If the tinsel and lights of the season cease abruptly when you step across the threshold, you may wish to consider creating a more copacetic environment for yourself and your colleagues.

Animal Spirits in the Black Forest

The Black Forest stretches from Karlsruhe as far as the Upper Danube and from Pforzheim to Lörrach with its pine forests, pastures and mountain lakes. There are monasteries, castles and ruins – much of it relatively untouched by the modern world.

It was a dark and stormy night….

……and in London at the moment, the days are pretty dark and stormy, too. A good time to mix up a potion for strength, potency and warmth. To paraphrase the wise words of the kings of the dance floor Odyssey: you need to get back to your roots, yeah?

It’s that season again…..

As the Winter Solstice party season looms, we must start thinking about plans for our Saturnalia bashes for December 17th – we can probably skip the human sacrifice part as it’s no longer terribly fashionable – but the traditional banquet for Saturn should certainly be observed. Whether at your Feast of Fools you choose to…

Friday’s child works hard for a living

Thrice the brindled cat hath mew’d. Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined. Bartenders say “‘Tis time, ’tis time.” Round about the shaker go; In the lychee liqueur throw. Vodka, that under cold stone Days and nights has thirty-one Lychee flesh and rose sirop, Muddle first i’ the charmed pot.

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“In the beginning of the story, the gingerbread man is created when a little old woman decides to bake a gingerbread snack. When she looks into the oven to check the progress of her creation, the gingerbread man jumps out of the oven. The woman desires to eat him, so the gingerbread man runs away…