#saint lucy's day

[ferociouslycreativemystery]

How dark be the night in midwinter times / But see, then here comes Lucia - song, wiki

[grub-karkat-in-strange-places]

happy saint lucy's day

[folkcorewitch]

Lussevaka 🌟 after the deep darkness always come the light. Inspired by the Scandinavian believes that on the 12th December, Lussi the winter witch, comes during night with her horde Lussiferda, to steal the souls of the living who wander outside, or destroys homes that are untidy. The best way to guard oneself from evil is to light as much candles as possible and to stay awake through the night. On the 13th the light bringing Saint Lucy will make the demons go away until next year.

[mrjanssonsfans]

Glad Lucia!

[badkruka]

Lucia | 13 December

[emvisual]

En el imaginario popular de muchos países, el día más corto es el 13 de diciembre, día de Santa Lucía. Depende del calendario que se use (Juliano o Gregoriano). 

En Italia y los Países Escandinavos es toda una fiesta.

[girlboccaccio]

Happy Santa Lucia il giorno più corto che ci sia to all my Italian mutuals

[cosmicwitch23]

Lussi Night

This does appear to be another variation of the wild hunt, which is also reminiscent of the "Night Battles" of the Benandanti or "Good People" (another name for fairies) in Northern Italy. All of these myths have witchy UFOish connotations. ❤

"Lussinatta, the Lussi Night, was marked in Sweden on the 13th December.

Then Lussi, a female being with traits, like a female demon or witch, was said to ride through the air with her followers, called Lussiferda. This itself might be an echo of the myth of the Wild Hunt, called Oskoreia in Scandinavia, found across Northern, Western and Central Europe.

Between Lussi Night and Yule, trolls and evil spirits, in some accounts also the spirits of the dead, were thought to be active outside. It was believed to be particularly dangerous to be out during Lussi Night. According to tradition, children who had done mischief had to take special care, since Lussi could come down through the chimney and take them away, and certain tasks of work in the preparation for Yule had to be finished, or else the Lussi would come to punish the household. The tradition of Lussevaka – to stay awake through the Lussinatt to guard oneself and the household against evil, has found a modern form through throwing parties until daybreak. Another company of spirits was said to come riding through the night around Yule itself, journeying through the air, over land and water."

[kommabortsig]

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[lalilaloli]

May you all have a Glad Lucia/Happy Saint Lucy’s day! 🕯️🕯️🕯️

Today, the country of Sweden celebrates a saint from Syracuse. How do we do that? Well, the night to the 13th of December we are suppose to be awake all night which we call ”lussevaka”. In earlier time we stayed up all night working and the reason we did that was because the forces of darkness were extremely active on that night. In the morning you had a big breakfast. Now a days, people are mostly out partying till early morning.

Then there are “Lucia trains” (no real trains involved) where people are dressed up as white dressed maids (tärnor), star boys (symbolically the tree wise men but nobody remembers that anymore), Christmas elves, gingerbread men and -of course- Lucia herself with candles in her hair. They sing Christmas carols and Lucia songs. And then there’s a lot of saffron buns (lussekatter which literally mean lusse-cats), gingerbread, mulled wine and coffee.

Oh and did I mention? We are a Protestant country. Sweden hasn’t been catholic since the reformation. But, obviously, that doesn’t stop us from celebrating an Sicilian, catholic saint from the 4th century😘

Glad Lucia! Happy Lucia!

[muffy-artist]

saint lucy

[thedenofravenpuff]

A merry Lucia Day from Scandinavia!

I felt like going a bit dramatic this year, illustrating one of my favourite holidays in Denmark

Merry Winter Solstice to one and all!

And do enjoy

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[forsakenbythenarrative]

theres a reason we celebrate the holidays that take place in or around december at the time we do. MOST of the sacred holidays celebrated near midwinter have a very similar story. its a very old story that we all know well: its always about a candle in the darkness; its always about hope in the most hopeless times. when the sun is as far away from us as it ever gets, the earth speaks and tells the same story over and over again, "spring is born in the darkest nights of winter. it is small and meek but it will grow."

[charles-leclerc-official]

luci have you seen jean alesi’s uh everything?? bc i was going to say that i thought you were the most dedicated charles fan who isn’t max or seb or piero ferrari because of your excellent race analyses but holy shit he has the saint charles prayer card and says that charles reminds him of senna and that he loves him???

anyway idk i thought this info would make u laugh if u didnt already know abt it bc damn i dont think anyone is going to take alesi’s number one charles fan status away from him

Bold of you to assume that this blog is not run by Jean Alesi.

All joking aside I have seen, and Jean is our fearless cult leader. (that being said if I ever show my Ferrari shrine people would be concerned, does it include the prayer card? well that's for me to know)

I am deeply flattered to be mentioned among such esteemed Charles fans <3

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

For your viewing pleasure...

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[the-weird-otaku]

"The light's carried forward | proudly on your crown."

Fuuka for Saint Lucy's Day because Lucia is her Persona (:

Credits:

Model - me, ATLUS

Crown - LoreneMMD, NQ Games

Candles - 柿竹

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