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- Frau Holda -
Frau Holda's festival is in the middle of winter, the time when humans retreat indoors from the cold. It may be of significance that the 12 Days of Christmas were originally the Zwölften ("the Twelve"), which like the same period in the Celtic calendar were an intercalary period during which the dead were thought to roam abroad.

Holda's connection to the spirit world through the magic of spinning and weaving has associated her with witchraft in Catholic German folklore. She was considered to ride with witches on distaffs, which closely resemble the brooms that witches are thought to ride. Likewise, Holda was often identified with Diana in old church documents. As early as the beginning of the eleventh century she appears to have been known as the leader of women and female nocturnal spirits, which "in common parlance are called "Hulden from Holda". These women would leave their houses in spirit, going "out through closed doors in the silence of the night, leaving their sleeping husbands behind". They would travel vast distances through the sky, to great feasts, or to battles amongst the clouds.

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Description
- Frau Holda -
Frau Holda's festival is in the middle of winter, the time when humans retreat indoors from the cold. It may be of significance that the 12 Days of Christmas were originally the Zwölften ("the Twelve"), which like the same period in the Celtic calendar were an intercalary period during which the dead were thought to roam abroad.

Holda's connection to the spirit world through the magic of spinning and weaving has associated her with witchraft in Catholic German folklore. She was considered to ride with witches on distaffs, which closely resemble the brooms that witches are thought to ride. Likewise, Holda was often identified with Diana in old church documents. As early as the beginning of the eleventh century she appears to have been known as the leader of women and female nocturnal spirits, which "in common parlance are called "Hulden from Holda". These women would leave their houses in spirit, going "out through closed doors in the silence of the night, leaving their sleeping husbands behind". They would travel vast distances through the sky, to great feasts, or to battles amongst the clouds.

- Stock -
Model: mizzd-stock.deviantart.com/art…
Snow Bushes: brokenwing3dstock.deviantart.c… and
brokenwing3dstock.deviantart.c…
Lantern: oldhippieart.deviantart.com/ar…
Owl: hotnstock.deviantart.com/art/O…
Wolf: losrebeckos.deviantart.com/art…
Background: kuschelirmel-stock.deviantart.…