Yule is not what you think it is! Tonight is the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year. Put another log on the fire. It was once called Yule and began the 12-day Yule festival that is now Christmastide or the Christmas season. The first night of Yule is also associated with the Wild Hunt, a ghostly army led by Woden (Odin). Death and or blindness will be the gift of those mortals unlucky enough to witness it. Accompanying Woden are elves, fairies, and draugar.
Draugar live in burial mounds and animate corpses, appearing much like zombies, but they can appear in dreams or become shapeshifters.
Sleep well tonight. Or be wary, and sleep not at all.
As for me—I have much to write about.
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