In the quiet hours just before midnight, when the world is in-between years, the residents of Appalachia listen to their elders and ancestors, and to the wisdom they passed down around coal camps and kitchen fires. Everyone in the mountains knows how you greet the new year is how the new year treats you.
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You’ve taken down the pumpkins and bats; and you thought you were safe from the monsters that left with the harvest moon. You let yourself relax into the familiar lull of traditions ushered in by the jolliest of all the seasons. But what you don’t know is that some legends don’t just reside in the shadows of Halloween.
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Before silver bells and twinkling lights, there was a different kind of Christmas tradition. In the deep snow drifts and harsh winters in the mountains of Iceland, Gryla the Christmas Witch was born.
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