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The Wild Hunts of Medieval Lore
https://www.medievalists.net/2020/10/wild-hunts-medieval/
Have you read?
The Wild Hunt by Jane Yolen - The best Winter Solstice read aloud book ever, plus you will never forget what a gerund is.
The Wild Hunt of Hagworthy by Penelope Lively - Captues that sense of the uncanny, definitely folk horror.
The Last Hot Time by John M. Ford - So much to love about this book, plus the elves are not annoyingly pretty.
Phantom Armies of the Night by Claude Lecouteux - One of the few nonfiction books I've found on the subject; the author is sort of the French Ronald Hutton
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This is the blessing I asked Teenybuffalo to read at the close of our Solstice party:

Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes,
Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,
This bird of dawning singeth all night long;
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad;
The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike,
No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallow’d and so gracious is the time.
Hamlet Act I, Scene I
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I am planning on this year being the year I plant a hedge but, for now, I have a small (very small) holly tree in a pot in my window. I also have an ivy so the holly doesn't get lonely. The holly is very well-behaved but, no matter how many times I try to train the ivy, it keeps reaching for the box of Fruit Loops. Or maybe it's reaching for my plush coyote.

I may have to write the fan fic for the holly and the ivy. And the coyote.

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