If you like #ghosts, #cryptids, #ufo, spine tingling tales combined with stunning photos, pick up our new book & first Canadian #paranormal magazine. Evenings & Avenues—Hauntings in the Outskirts available now. #spooky #WritingCommunity #haunted #books #authorscommunity #Reading

Hello, friends. Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season. #ChristmasEve #MerryChristmas #WINTER

Happy Winter Solstice, friends. Let’s all get ready for renewal and new beginnings. Here’s to a new year coming and the light returning with each day. #WinterSolstice #Christmas #December

A great night last night @citypittmeadows with the @CPKCrail and the @barenakedladies. Amazingly the weather held out for this festive event that raised money for The Friends in Need food bank. #Solstice #ChristmasVibes #FridayNight #celebration

Cant wait! Tomorrow they will be here!

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The Ottawa tradition of someone putting a scarf on the Terry Fox statue when it gets cold continues ❤️🇨🇦

The pine cone is associated with inner vision, intuition, higher consciousness, & the bridge between the physical & divine realms.  It’s widely used in magic for protection & cleansing. Burning pine resin purifies a space & wards off evil influences. #yule #rituals #folklore

The Yule goat is a mischievous creature in Scandinavian folklore, that was believed to roam around during the darkest time of the year. In the olden days, men dressed up as Yule goats would show up in Scandinavian homes at Yuletide and check if people had cleaned themselves

Casper says a late night hello. Hope everyone had a great weekend, friends. #Cat #CatsOfTwitter #CatsOfX #catlovers

Our last public event at the Spirit of Yule Psychic Fair at the Heritage Hall in Pitt Meadows. Thank you to all who came out to buy our books. We are so grateful for all of you! Even Santa got his copy to our latest book! #ghosts #Christmas2025 #haunted #hauntedhistory

In Iceland there is a tradition called Jolabokaflod - #Christmas Book Flood. This is when loved ones present each other with books on #ChristmasEve & then read them together. The books should be new & booksellers do most of their trade at this time of year. #BookChatWeekly

In the Scottish Highlands, chief amongst the forest spirits is the Uruisg, a half human and half goat being; similar to the faun Ofelia meets, who informs of her three tasks. Pan's Labyrinth, 2006 Dir. Guillermo del Toro

Did you know that the Canadian government issued Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus Canadian citizenship? In fact, there is some evidence to say that Santa is indeed Canadian. This is the story of Santa's Canadian connections! First, Santa Claus of course has his own postal code through

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On this day in 1904, Santa Claus walked from Union Station to Eaton's in Toronto. This was the beginning of the Santa Claus Parade. The first official Toronto Santa Claus Parade happened the following year with one float. It is now the oldest Santa Claus Parade in the world.

'Two lonelinesses just met' (2020) by Andrey Nikolayevich Pilipenko

My name’s Lorraine, I’m 76, and last Thanksgiving taught me a truth I never wanted to face: Sometimes the people you spent your whole life making room for… slowly forget to make room for you. For decades, my home was the Thanksgiving house. The noisy one. The crowded one. The

In old Slavic and Celtic countryside tales, it was said: "Feed a crow, and it remembers. Feed it thrice, and you are kin." To honor this, crumble a bit of bread at the edge of a path or windowsill. Speak aloud: "For the black-feathered witness. For the sky's dever tongue."

Perhaps more fantastical fiction than modern folklore, the 'Dogdyke Werewolf' was discovered in 1926 on Langrick Fen, Lincolnshire. The skeleton of a half-wolf and half-man creature found buried in peat.

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