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Tag Archives: Pagan
La Befana – The Christmas Witch: Italy
La Befana is known throughout history as a wise and magical woman who arrives flying on a broom or sometimes even on a donkey bringing gifts to the children, leaving figs, dates, nuts, and candy on the eve of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alps, Babushka, broom, Celtic, Christianity, Christmas Witch, cult, donkey, entities, Epiphany, evocation, Fairy, Figs, frankincense, gifts, Goddess, gold, Gold coins, Hekate, Hygenia, India, Italy, La Befana, Leaves, Magi, magician, Money, myrrh, nature, New Year's Day, Norway, Pagan, Palestine, Pianura Padana, pre-Christianity, Priestess, Rome, Russia, Salus, Santa Claus, scented salamader, secrets, Strenae, Strenua, Strina, Three Wise Men, witch
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Almost Scrooged: How Hitler Tried To Redesign Christmas
In 1921, in a Munich beer hall, newly appointed Nazi party leader Adolf Hitler gave a Christmas speech to an excited crowd. According to undercover police observers, 4,000 supporters cheered when Hitler condemned “the cowardly Jews for breaking the world-liberator … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Wartime
Tagged 1920, 1930, 1940, Adolf Hiter, Beer, celebrations, festivities, Germany, Holiday, Munich, nationalism, nationalist, Nazi, Nordic, Pagan, propaganda, regime, socialism, socialist
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