![]() Here are some classical favorites.For the month of December we are taking over Gallery5 and covering the walls with as much Krampus (and friends) interpretations as we can. No one else celebrated murder, battling nature, and the morbid as an Xmas delight that the Victorians. Sandwiched in between a near prehistoric, prescience culture and the modern era, these confusing folk cloaked so many of the their choking social strictures in the most magnificently odd ways… be it an obsession with warring frogs, Krampus delights or the ever dark sense of mind that they thought murdering a robin in December as a votive for good fortune. The victorians relationship with life and particularly with death by today’s standards is both deeply unfamiliar and bizarre, and it’s a lot of why I am so fond of this era. These are amongst my most favorite of things and a hobby love I know many of you share… looking at YOU Mike Mignola. The tradition entails the use of an eponymous hobby horse which is made from a horse’s skull mounted on a pole and carried by an individual hidden under a sackcloth. SO… to that, here we have a small collection of some of my personal holidays loves.Ī truly magical and strange Welsh tradition, Mari Lwyd is one of the lesser known darker xmas traditions, but a huge warm thing for those in the know…. ![]() ![]() It’s certainly a weird world out there and I find it intimately comforting that it has been for quite some time. ![]() This solstice-y time of year brings a lot of the best and worst of us all, but after a year of us all wrestling with the worst let’s ring out the final major holiday of the dreadful poo tornado that has been 2020 with some old, weird holiday magic? That’s how we’re doing it in Greglandia this year, and everyone’s invited. ![]()
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