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I'm burly, and I'm a new fan of the series.
I'm LA, and I'm here along for the ride. Now let's get tipsy.
Hello, la Hello Burley. I think I saw you tear up a little bit on today's episode.
Maybe a little as I saw you wiping your
tears Shut up. Well, before we get into that, where were we on our last episode?
All right, the previous episode fresh blood. Sam and Dean captured of vampire named Lucy who thought she was just high on drugs. No turned out a vampire Dixon was drugging girls to make his family. Sam and Dean tried to intervene. Gordon and Kubrick shot at them tried to get them. The dealer Dixon took out Gordon ended up turning him into a vampire. And Gordon was dead set on still killing Sam. Dean and Sam tried to meet him. Take him out. They got into a kerfuffle and separated but in
the end, Sam decapitated. Gord
Gordon was the best vampire we've seen yet to bar none. This should have kept him around a little bit longer.
So that's why I say bar none. Yeah, okay. Yeah. Pretty sure. Sure. Yeah.
Well, today's episode, very different vibe. Hmm. For the most part. Yeah. I think that this episode did have a scene where for the first time ever, you and I both were covering our faces and screaming at the television. We'll talk more about that when we get there. Okay.
I'm like,
did we? We did. Okay, we did. Today's episode is a very supernatural Christmas. It's the eighth episode of the third season. And the mid season finale. for season three.
Oh, I didn't know that.
It premiered on December 13 2007. I didn't either because at the beginning of the episode, it was like special presentation, like, did that whole thing. So I thought it was like a special. Yeah, whatever. So the episode opens up, and it lets you know that this was a year ago in Seattle, Washington. We see a man walk into a house. His grandkid is there. And the spoiled little brat is immediately like Hi grandpa. Do you have presents? Where are my presents? Of course Grandpa is
like, Oh, well. Have you been a good little boy? And he's like, Yeah, I have. And he's as well then Santa should be here later on this evening. Cut to grandpa is dressed up like Santa. And he's putting presents under the tree and he's making a lot of noise so that the little boy hears him and he comes down the stairs and he's sitting there with this chubby little face squeezed between the what is it banister, watching Santa's quote unquote, putting gifts under the
present under the tree. And then there's like these noises on the roof. And the little kid is like, oh my god, reindeer and Grandpa is going WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? Making these faces the noises are getting louder. Ash starts falling down the chimney. So grandpa goes over to the chimney to be like what is happening? And then we see these two hands reach down from the
chimney grab grandpa. You hear like crunching noises of the grandpa getting pulled up the chimney and the little boy just watching this like yeah, wonder and majesty or whatever show and then grandpa's foot still in the Santa boot falls out of the chimney and onto the ground. Oh, I
thought he was like all the way up and it was like crunch crunch. Like somebody was eating him. flew down like they spit
out his boots still had blood on it. So I just assumed the foot was still in there.
Oh, okay. And then it goes.
But it lets us know that we're in present day. And now we are in a city. I'm not going to try to pronounce Michigan so. Okay, not in Washington anymore. Well, it's yep, yep. Slowly T. O. Flint.
Yep. slanty Ypsilanti.
Gippsland. CMT anyway,
heaps land. Yeah,
Sam and Dean are there but They are visiting the home of Mrs. Walsh whose husband has disappeared. And the only clue they find while going through the home is a bloody tooth and the fireplace. Only one. Well, it's the only one they take note of at this time. Okay, we'll put it that way. Okay. very observant smarty pants, Samuel notices some other things, but he doesn't put importance on any of those things until a little bit later. You're right, my bad. No worries. But they have a
bloody tooth. Yeah. Great. And they were kind of harsh with the wife in my opinion.
Yeah, they've been a little like softer with some other people a little more, like, more empathetic? Yeah, not this time.
No. She was like, Oh, my husband is like we're sorry for your loss. We just need information just shut up. But like, you obviously don't know anything. So we're out of here. Useless. So they leave there. They find out there is a second man in town who has disappeared, and speculates that they might be dealing with an evil Santa. Because of the Lord. What do you mean, the Lord will say I'm searching on his laptop? Oh, that's right. Yeah, he's looking at all these Krampus cards and
everything. So he's saying an evil Santa. Santa is Brother yatta yatta. Maybe this is what we're hunting. Those cards
were this some of the same that weed you found? I think for our other one.
Our very first podcast episode ever was on Krampus over on the tipsy exchange.
And I was really into Krampus his goat milk. Yeah.
So because of this, they're looking into their victims. They're thinking evil Santa Dean is like Santa is not real. Sam's like, Oh, I remember. You told me that when I was a kid. I remember I know Santa is not real. As they do while they're trying to figure out the connection between the victims and one of the connections they come up with is that both victims has visited Whoa, you got it. visited this Santos village, which is just the most depressing little Santos village that you've ever
seen. So they decide they need to go to it. There's like paint missing from the sign. People who are walking around and like their elves costumes or their reindeer costumes look like they would rather be anywhere else. But there they are walking in and Dean is saying, Hey, we should do our own little Christmas this year. We should get together and Sam's not about it. He's like, no, no, we don't need to do that.
Well, they did a bunch of was not a bunch. They did a few flashbacks in this one to their childhood around Christmas time. And it was a little heartbreaking each time.
Yeah. The first one they do was in 1991. And it shows Sam and Dean alone in the motel room talking about when dad was going to come back if Dad is going to come back. And Sam is wrapping up a Christmas present. He says specifically that it's for dad that he got it from Uncle Bobby. And that it's very special. You know, talking to Dean and asking, Is dad going to come back and Dean's definitely
saying yes. And Sam was kind of prodding trying to figure out what what says Dad do Where is dad at what is he doing and Dean tries to keep deflecting not answering the questions changing the subject. And he gets very angry whenever Sam brings up their mom who Yeah, little overreaction. Yeah, too much really, really angry. Like don't you ever talk about her? did not like it. So yeah, we get that's the first flashback we get but like LA said there were periodic flashbacks throughout the
episode. Present day back at Sandals village. Sam and Dean are watching the guy who's Santa. And inexplicably, this one little boy comes up to Santa and sits in his lap and it's creepy as hell. The Santa is like, Have you been a good little boy that you have? And I was like, Why did they do? It was just disturbing. And I guess they just wanted us to think this guy isn't a good guy. So let's do this. But Jesus
will like that. And then he was like I got it. Santos got a special gift for ya boy is like okay, no, no,
no doubt we get it. We already get the vibe that this place is not up to par or whatever you want to say.
It's not a Christian Christmas.
So Sam and Dean had been talking earlier about the anti Santa and that he walks with a limp and he smells like candy. So they're kind of standing back Watching this fake Santa for some reason, these intellectual hunters who, why they're just standing you're watching him. I don't know they got
a they got a good creep radar.
Yeah, maybe, maybe this elf woman comes up and is talking to them about if they need to get in line or something. And Dean says no, and kind of passes it off to Sam and is like we're here for him. And she's like it's for children 12 and under. And then Sam goes, We're just here to watch girls like y'all are creeps, like that's even worse. And Sam was just like, Thanks, Dean. Thanks. This is awesome. Well then fake Santa gets up from his chair and is walking with an exaggerated
limp. As he walks by, they say he smelled like candy. And Dean goes, was that candy? Or was it rumpled mints? Anyway, so they're suspecting that this guy is the anti Santa now because of the limp and potential stench of sweets factor.
Oh my god, we have the anti Santa and the Antichrist. Say
it's a party. So they decide to stick this guy out there watching him in his RV trailer, what have you. And he's doing some shady shit they can see through the window and he's like, looking around through the window and closes the curtains. And then you can hear screaming from his trailer. I thought they were about to walk in on him having sex with somebody based off of the screaming but it was just born. I mean, he had a giant Bong that by God looks like it was taller than the man
himself. Right? It was a huge Andy from Simon said would have been proud.
True. Oh, he would have been there with him. Oh, Andy. Like, let me take a hit.
So the guy is yelling at them because they come charging in through his door, thinking that they're going to stop him from attacking somebody but he's just watching bad porn. He's like one of your auto one on here. Rah rah Dean ban, the quick witted little guy that is starts singing Christmas carols. And Sam chimes in, and it's fucking hilarious because they don't know the word. And both of them are messing up, but they're
sticking with the bid. Luckily, this drunk Santa who's still wearing half of his Santa outfit, for some reason, he just kind of smiles and laughs and sits down while they just awkwardly continue not singing Silent Night, but thinking like pretending they are as they inch their way out the door. So it was pretty funny.
I like that Santa had the bong and like a huge bottle of something and the other hand, like watching them and just like
he was just smiling. Like it was great. Yeah. Well, the porn continued to play in the background. Terrible. What does she say? You can jingle my bells elsewhere in another locale, they were not having nearly as much fun. Another guy gets taken up the chimney and this scene. Let me tell you, that kid's gonna need some therapy. Yeah. So we yet again, have noises on the rooftop and whatnot where a child thinks that maybe Santa is about to come down the chimney. Something comes down the
chimney. And it looks like he's in we don't get a shot of anything above the waist. But it looks like the monsters wearing a Santa suit of some sort. blennies let it's bloody. Yeah, it's covered in blood. And it comes down the chimney. And the kid is just standing there terrified watching it. Whatever the monster is. And it walks right past the kid goes upstairs, we hear the moms scream, we see a flash of light.
And then bloody Santa comes walking out of the room dragging a Santa sack with a person in it thrashing around trying to get out of the sack, as they're like dragging it back down the stairs. And the kid is still just standing there in shock. And then he walks toward the kid reaches over the kid's head to take a cookie. Yeah. And eat a cookie before he drags the dad up the chimney in the Santa sack. And the kid is just standing there looking horrified the entire time.
Could you imagine being that kid like how flocked Christmas would be for the rest of your life
rest of your life?
I don't think it's celebrated anymore.
Like fucked up. Yeah. So Sam and Dean go to investigate this house the next day. And that's when Sam notices that there's a wreath and this family's house and that he's seen that wreath before it was in the other family's house where they found the bloody two. He also notices that there's a specific kind of plant On the wreath called meadow sweet, an herb used in pagan rites to summon gods to a human sacrifice. So Sam concludes they're actually looking for a pagan god of the Winter Solstice
who grants climate weather. calm weather. I thought calm weather. Yeah. Where they are is supposed to be in what did I say?
It's up north Michigan. Yeah. But yeah, but there is
no Michigan but there's no snow anywhere. It's been sunny. Maybe looking like it might rain the entire episode. And it's Christmas time. So little weird, right? Weather's a little weird.
I also like Sam mentioned how I think he picked out a few things. I didn't write it down. But that a lot of Christmas things are based on pagan lore and rituals. Yeah, which I kind of do that. But the ones he picked out, I was like, Oh, really should have written them down.
Yeah, Dean said something about how it's Jesus's birthday. And Sam was like, actually, Jesus was probably born in the fall. Yeah, Santa suit, the evergreen trees, gift exchanges, all of that stuff. It's pagan rituals based around the winter solstice. So all this talk of pagans got me really excited. But he didn't show up this episode. So we'll just move on. I thought I thought it might happen. I did, too. I was told he's in the season, but not yet. He's probably in the finale.
Yeah, probably toward the end. Yeah. Anyway, back at the hotel, Dean again brings up that they should celebrate Christmas. And Sam finally is like, why? You haven't brought this shit up for years. Why are you suddenly all about us celebrating Christmas. And Dean just blatantly says because it's my last one. And that was the first time I cried this episode, like knife in the heart. So then I started tearing up. And then Sam says that's the same reason I'm about to cry
right now. Oh, my God. And then Sam says that's the same reason he can't celebrate it. Because he knows it stains. Last one. Yeah. Knowing he won't be there next year. Yeah. It was so sad that we get another flashback. It shows that Sam has essentially the purpose of this flashback. Is Sam still trying to get Dean to tell him what their dad is doing? And then he reveals that he has their dad's journal, and that he's read it.
And Dean is like, oh my god, dad is going to kill you whenever he finds out that you have that. But Sam is just like our monsters real? I've read this. It says a monster killed Mom. What's the deal? are monsters real? And so Dean finally tells him that yes, they're real dad is a hunter. He even describes their dad like he's a superhero. So we are getting an early glimpse at the fact that Dean idolized his father. He tells Sam the truth that this is the
family business. You know, Sam asks about other myths, including the Easter Bunny and Santa. And that's when Dean kind of let some No, no, those those aren't true.
I thought it was cute that Sam said. The dad said the monsters under my bed weren't real. And Dean was like, oh, that's because he already checked.
Yeah, I thought that was cute. That was cute. Sam, he starts tearing up and then I teared up.
I will say just you started tearing up a little bit. I feel like for that though, Dean. Like when Dean first initiated this conversation like is the way to bring it up was the wreath they had when they were younger. That was a beer cannery. Yeah. And he was like, I bet you scrounge that up again. It's like, that's so sad that children were excited about a berry. Yeah,
I meant older Dean brought up the beer cannery. Well, Sam is getting upset because Santa the Easter Bunny is not real. But all these scary monsters that are gonna kill you in your sleep. They're real. And dad is out hunting them. And he's saying, you know, Dad's journal, it says that a monster killed mom. And if a monster could get to mom, a monster could get to dad and if a monster could get to dad than a
monster could get to us. And he's just getting really upset about the whole thing and tearing up and Dean's trying to comfort him and he's just like, I just want to go to bed. And Sammy was just like, cried himself to sleep basically.
Um, those little two boys were good actors, especially the one playing Sam because I feel like Sam's always the one to cheer up anyway, more than Diem. And he teared up and then it was just so sweet.
Yeah. I thought they did good. Yeah. So we come back to present day and Sam and Dean go to visit the home of maj and Edward Kerrigan. They're visiting them because they had gone to the store that sold the rates and the guy at the store told them Oh, yeah, like maj Kerrigan make smoothies and she just gave them to me for free to sell to everybody and I'm
completely sold out. And they figure out that the meadowsweet that's in the Reese is really fucking expensive and these wreaths would not be cheap to make. So if this bitch is making these reeds and giving them away to somebody for free and being like, oh, go sell them, like she's probably in on it somehow. And sure enough, they are just over the top. perfect couple. Oh, so happy. Oh, so cheery, beaver Cleaver, whatever you want to call it? Yeah, it was suspicious. Right off the bat.
They look into the couple and they figure out that they were in Seattle the previous year, and that three men disappeared there while they were there and then they moved here in January. They call Bobby for advice. He tells them that the couple is probably pagan gods does some research, and lets them know that steaks made of evergreen wood would kill them. So the boys returned to the Kerrigan house later on, do a good old b&e, and go down to the basement
where it's creepy as fuck. They find human remains all over the place. Bloody Santa sacks, all kinds of stuff. And while they're looking at everything, Madge comes out of nowhere and attack Sam like grabs him by the throat and holds them up against the wall. He drops their steaks. And then Edward is attacking dean. And they basically knock them out and take them captive.
I also said once after they captured or while they were down in the basement, I was like, Where are the elves? I totally. I was like, There's got to be a sweatshop down there of the Elves making these reefs and then helping them out.
That was funny. Anyway, when the boys come to, they're tied up in the kitchen. And it's just so weird because it's this quintessential perfect kitchen with like, goodies and decorations and this perfect little suburban couple and their ugly Christmas sweaters. But then dean and Sam tied up together back to back in these dining room chairs, their hands tied to the chair arms. It was it was I wish I could have done a screen grab like it was really it was so funny. So they're
talking back and forth. And the Kerrigan is basically confirmed that yes, they are pagan gods. And since the rise of Christianity, they've just been, you know, blending. We've been assimilating into society. We play bridge on Tuesdays. You know, it just we're just doing doing our thing.
We're just regular old foe, because
they're old people. They say they have to do this ritual for their sacrifices. And I think it was Sam who said, well, we don't have the meadowsweet and then they go and put a little wreath of meadowsweet around each of their necks. They're like, you know, they have to have to get through this ritual. So they start going through the ritual first. They cut Sam and Dean is pissed. And he's cussing and calling bitch and she's like what I liked cuz I use fudge.
Well, when they cut Sam, I was like, Oh, there. Yeah. No,
I thought he was gonna get out of there. So first, they're cutting their arms and bleeding them into a bowl. And then they're like, Oh, next we need to get a fingernail. And they get these things. And that's when you and I both covered our faces and we're screaming and they ripped off Sam's fingernail. Neither of us watched it.
Which I don't know why I can't watch it because oh, I've literally pulled my own toenail out. So I I don't know why it's so hard for me. But yeah, I did the same thing. We both really
well. Yeah, we were covering our faces and screaming and we could hear Jared paddle like a screaming on the screen. I was just like, ah goodness. And then they were like and we needed a tooth and they went over to Dean to pull out a tooth and then we heard the doorbell ringing. And we both went Bobby like we totally thought Bobby was gonna be there to save the
day. It was not Bobby. It was one of their neighbors asking if they want to come caroling and giving them a fruitcake and asking are we still on for bridge tomorrow? So Bill, but it was a distraction that Sam indeed needed to actually get away so whenever Majan Edward come back into the kitchen, the chairs are empty. There's two doors that lead into the kitchen. Each of the Winchesters are outside one of the doors so they slam the doors. Dean opens a drawer on his door in order to
lock them in there. He runs over to the other side and helps Sam move a giant bookshelf to block the other door and Sam says we dropped the Evergreen steaks down in the basement. But there's a Christmas tree by the window and dammit these winter Esther's resourceful they immediately get to work, tearing down the Christmas tree, ripping off branches and getting something so that they can fight the pagan gods. They, the pagan gods break their way out of the kitchen. And Sam takes care of
Madge. While Dean takes care of Edward. They get both of them staked with branches from the evergreen trees. Then they get the fuck out of there. Yes, they just murdered two people, for as far as anybody else would think. Job's done, job well done. We get another flashback. Where Dean is waking up Sam, and says, Hey, you know while you were asleep, dad came here that I told you he was going to make press Christmas happen for us like look, and there's this pathetic little Christmas tree
over in the corner. And a couple of presents couple of wrapped presents. And Sam's like dad was here. Why didn't he wake me? And Dean's like, oh, he tried. He tried to wake you up. But you were just so fast asleep. You just didn't wake up. Just come on. You know he made Christmas happen for us to open the presents. So Sam excitedly gets up and goes and picks up the two presents and opens them both. And one is a Barbie and the other is like a sparkly baton with fringe coming
out of either glitter tassels. Yeah.
He's like dad wasn't here was a Where did these presidents come from? And Dean admits that he stole them from the nice house around the corner that he didn't know they were going to be chick presents. Sam decides in that moment that he wants Dean to have the Christmas present he had gotten from Bobby to give his dad and Dean's like you said it was special. Are you sure? And Sam says yes. I want you to have it. Dean opens it.
And it's that giant fucking chunky necklace that Dean has had on every single episode since the pilot was like, you finally cried? Yeah,
I don't say I wouldn't say a cry. But I got to you tears.
You teared up. I saw you.
I told you. I've been wondering the whole time. Like, what is this thing that's so special. He keeps wearing and I can't tell what it is. It's like, is it a frog? Is that a beetle? Like what is it? But he handed it to him? And it was so like, golden and brand new. And when we see it on, Dean, it looks a little tarnished and older. Yeah. So just knowing he wears that all the time, which it's close to his heart, by the way, at all times. And that little Sammy gave it to
him. Of all the things that I thought would finally make la turn up. It did, Dad, I just wouldn't have guessed it. I was I was surprised. I was fucking crying. But then I look over and I saw you crying and I was like, Oh,
well, and it just made me realize like poor Dean. Like, Yes, Daddy was, you know, their dad, but like jeans like literally have always been his dad and his brother. You know, that just kind of solidified it for me seeing that as like, it's so sweet and so sad in so many ways. And so sweet. Like it just it was.
It was it was it. I was crying at this point. Yeah. So we come back to the present day and we see Dean coming into the motel. And Sam has set up Christmas in the motel for Dean this time. So we just came from the flashback where Dean made Christmas happen for Sam. And now Sam's making Christmas happen for Dean for his last one. He has put together a Christmas tree and a little Merry Christmas sign. And Dean's come in with beer.
I won't say I'm how's the eggnog? Yes.
And Sam's made eggnog and everything. So they exchange presents and they just bought they bought each other stuff from the local gas station. Dane got Sam skin mags and shaving cream. I totally thought the shaving cream bag was going to be a big bag of lube. But I realized in hindsight, that was a really that would have been a really big bottle of lube. Oh my god. Sam got Dean oil and a candy bar and Dean made a joke that was fuel for him and fuel for his baby.
Yeah.
Sam starts to kind of be like, hey ding and say something serious. You can feel the I Love You coming but he doesn't actually say it. He says would you want to watch the game and they turn on the TV and it pans out. And it shows baby sitting outside the motel.
I love this.
It was very sweet.
I loved that shot though. A baby like they're both in the hotel and the baby's outside and she's got sprinkles of snow honor and then reflections of Krishna Christmas lights too. I was like that's such a cute shot
was like a little Christmas card or some family. It was very cute. So some fun facts. In this episode when Sam and Dean toast and drink the eggnog Jensen's react Shin is genuine because behind the scenes, Jared poured rum into his loss without Jensen knowing this episode was written by Jeremy Carver, who also wrote Sin City with Robert singer. And it was directed by Jay Miller Tobin, who also directed season two was born under a bad sign to one of our favorites. Yes. So
that's it for the recap. There wasn't the goriest part of this episode. I feel like you and I both miss what the fingernail. Oh, yeah,
I did see a little bit of it, did you? Oh,
I didn't I covered my face. I just covered my face and screened until I thought it was over. Well, I
should say I've never pulled off a whole nail I've like cut it down and then pulled it out.
From what I could see. The pliers to pull out a whole fingernail yeah
that I can't take like oh nail it couldn't take but couldn't do it. Also, don't watch it without drinking. Like every time I've done it I've been I've had a few so it wasn't feeling any pain. Oh, so cut it down. Pull it out. Yeah, you're making it hurt.
You're making me clinch everything right now just talking about this stuff. No, I probably need to do some cables. It's been a while so I would say that was the glorious part. I mean, there was some gory noises Yeah, throughout the episode will on Santa was real bloody scene. The bloody suit with the blood on the third and all that. I mean, for a Christmas episode in a horror themed show. I really liked this. Yeah, like moving
into the adore. I really liked it overall, obviously the flashbacks and the further character development was a huge bonus to this episode. But can I I honestly loved the whole thing. Overall, it was really good. The flashbacks
were a little heartbreaking. But like we cried,
I just, I feel accomplished. I had nothing to do with it whatsoever. There's no reason for me to feel accomplished. But I just do you finally cried because I feel like I've cried at least five times by
now. Yeah. I just think it was like the I think I don't know why it took me this long to get to this realization because I already knew in a way but just like seeing it. How young Dean was being like a dad to little Sam. It just was a little more heartbreaking to see it than just knowing it. Yeah. And then just, again, the sweetness of it to it like their bond, but how sad. It is for them and how they grew up. But what an amazing relationship they have now that
it's still flawed. never perfect, but they have such a bond and they love each other so much. Yeah.
So I liked it a lot. Yeah, one note I did jot down that I didn't bring up is that whenever Sam was first trying to get them to do Christmas, he said come on. We'll do Christmas. Like we used to back in the day, we'll go get Boston Market. And I was like, Oh man, Boston Market back in the day was the bomb. Oh, yeah. Their sides are still pretty good. But yeah, every it's not as good as it used to be. I agree. It's more it's more like fast food and back in the day.
Oh, yeah. It was all fresh. So good. Oh, and I love chicken pot pie. And I swear back in the day, I had the chicken Popeye and it was so used to be that. It's like fast food now they put like cinnamon in it. Yeah. And I cannot eat it and it's so disappointing.
So that is a very supernatural Christmas. Merry
Christmas.
What about the lore?
So the lore we're going to talk about is as Sam mentioned, the winter solstice. The word Solstice is derived from the Latin word soul, which means son, and sister, which means to stand. Winter Solstice is also known as the day sun stands still, the winter solstice also marks the astronomical beginning of winter. Did I say that right? astronomical. No, no, no, that's right. The winter solstice also marks the astronomical beginning of winter when Earth's pole is tilted farthest away from the
sun. from this time forward, our days will begin to lengthen only for a minute or two at first, but it won't take long for it to be noticed. noticeably lighter for longer. cultural traditions from around the northern hemisphere have long told fireside stories about mythical monsters who steal the sun, play tricks on or try to eat happy, hapless humans in the darkness. But sometimes Solstice stories are about Kinder beings who help us through the leanness time of the year to
Kinder or Kinder
Kinder the Kinder be kinder VA. Oh my god. Okay, but sometimes Solstice stories are about Kinder beings who help us through the leanest time of the year to no fucking idiot. In Finnish mythology, it's told that Louie, which it may be Laue, the Witch goddess of the North had kidnapped the sun and the moon and hold them captive inside a mountain causing the darkness of winter.
Tick tock keeps trying to convince me to be a witch and I'm I'm on model about it. You're on the fence. I'm no Oh, no, you're right. I'm in I'm in.
Oh, okay. All right. I
learned more about myself every day.
They tell me so much about myself. Oh my god. Well, the you pick
you pick your pick.
The you pick people's indigenous to the Arctic tell the story of Cago POC, subterranean monsters with bulbous bodies, and frog like legs who could only be killed by the sun. On the winter solstice. The Kabuki pock emerge to hunt and mammoth carcasses were said to be the corpses of the ones who stayed out too long and died when the sun returned.
Oh, what's a bulbous body in round? The lump show us Yeah.
And Greek mythology, the killer can sorrows were angry Harry known like creatures who lived underground and tried to cut out the tree of life. Like the congu Park. They could also be killed only by sunlight and emerged during the solstice to wreak havoc on homes and villagers. They were puted to be rather dumb and unable to count past three.
So they couldn't count past three. Yeah.
So villagers put out colanders to ward them off. The Kill can sorrows would end up trying to count the holes and the colanders until sunrise, and then have to go back to underground before they could cause any mischief because they couldn't get to three. So those are the monster mythical monsters of the Winter Solstice. Now we have some gods and goddesses of the Winster Winter Solstice. Okay, yeah.
Can I count to three?
Let's hope so, my God, or goddess, who? During winter solstice, there were also stories about Kinder beings, not kinder, kinder beings. And a variety of gods and goddesses were worshipped like Tonon Tizen Taan, and then Tom Anson and Mexico. Callie. Kelly each the Hearn in Scotland I'm know I'm saying all this wrong. Horace in Egypt and spider grandmother by the hoppy
hoopy All right, yeah, I understood about 50% of that.
Should I say it again? No. Okay, though, I don't think No do not.
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Winter Solstice has also been known to celebrate Earth regeneration or rebirth. And the Scandinavian goddess Bay, we shout out my homeland is associated with health and fertility. It was believed that she traveled through the night in a structure made of reindeer bones, with her daughter, Bailey Nia, to bring back the greenery
on which the reindeer fed. For this reason she was worshipped during the time of the this time of the year, and Italian foreclosed, there was la Bafana, a goddess who rides around the world on a broom during the solstice leaving candies and gifts to well behaved children. Placing a rag doll in her likeness by the front door or window entices her into the
home. Now before humans understood the solar system and how gravity sends us around the sun on our round and slightly tilted planet, we told these stories to explain the darkness, entertain or frighten each other or to keep our part or parts not apart.
I need to keep my parts or to keep
our spirits up and provide reassurance. Now that we understand the physical forces of the universe a little better, we are confident that spring will eventually come. So even today there are with winter solstice festivals and celebrations around the world. A pagan Scandinavian one is the feast of Zhu Zhu logs were
jewel logs or you will log well it's jewel
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on let me google it. I feel like he did commercials for it.
Okay, well let me finish this one. The it's a pagan Scandinavian Winter Festival when jewel logs are burned and fires were lit to symbolize the heat and life giving properties of the returning sun it was believed that they'll you'll log spelled with a y. So maybe it is you'll with a J, I don't know had the magical effect of helping the sun to shine more brightly. People who celebrated this drink need around the bonfires while minstrel poets sang of ancient legends?
Stephen Dorff did not promote the jewel. Okay. I was like, promoted third this the blue e cig.
Oh, well, you should probably stop smoking altogether, right? Yeah,
I did watch the western movie. Old Henry. I didn't know Stephen dork was in it. When I watched it. He was in it.
Okay. It all Steven Gore Gorath. Door. Stephen door. Yeah, what's his name? The word? Oh my god. Okay, I'm just gonna run through a couple of other festivals. There's the festival of Shem Shem Xiao most Shami, Siamese. What am I am us joining us. What am I the I don't know. It's a Pakistani celebration. There's the Dong Zhi festival which is a Chinese and other East Asians festival. The Saturn nali is an ancient Roman pagan festival. And just look in your
area. Look it up. There's probably a solstice festival somewhere around that you can attend. Who knows which of these, you know, ancient civilization?
I don't know. But once I become a witch, I'll host my own. Okay. I don't know how good I'm gonna be. But we'll see.
I'll have to tell me more about this. We'll do well anyway, just look around. I'm sure you can find yourself a winter solstice festival to attend.
So quote to close it out. After that bitch match was like oh, I don't cuss. I use budge instead. And then cut Dean. Dean screamed in her face. You budget and touch me again? Oh fudging killya Cheers. Thank you for listening to denim wrapped nightmares.
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