Second Stanza: audio UN: Marsh.

[gristle]

[The teenager's voice is just annoyed:]

Doesn't this place have anything normal like trick or treating?! Why does everything have to be dead people and scary stuff and ghosts?

Why can't it just be going around filling pillowcases with candy?

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*switches to private voice*

[like_quicksilver]

So...could you tell me what exactly goes on during cabbage night?

private voice.

[gristle]

Well, it's kinda like the night where you do things like egg houses and put toilet paper on them and soap windows. It's a good way of getting back at people. They used to call it cabbage night because it's when people would go and steal any cabbages left in the middle of the field at night.

Re: private voice.

[like_quicksilver]

You'd have to be a fast runner to do that and not get caught.

Back home, if there is any food left in the field at this time of the night, it is left for Odin and his Horde. They roam the skies at night and abduct anyone they find alone. Some of the farmers will leave a small portion out in the field to appease them..

You ever participate in cabbage night?

[gristle]

I am a fast runner. But yeah I have. Most kids back home have.

[And it’s not like she has adult supervision or anything like that.]

Does Odin really fly around?

[like_quicksilver]

Not himself. He rides on horse back, those who follow him are all said to travel in the storm clouds at night. They say you hear the hoof beats or the sounds of dogs first.

All of the gods are likely to travel, but Odin is known as the Wandering god. He wanders the land as a grey cloaked form, and ravens circle above him, bringing word of everything they see or hear.

[gristle]

Sounds like Santa.

[like_quicksilver]

Except that no one goes outside during October and November to wait for the Hunt. To be outside and hear their call is a bad omen, and those unlucky enough to be caught are drawn into the hunt and forced to ride for eternity.

That does remind me. I think you get part of your 'Santa Claus' from Odin. As scary as he can be in early winter, in December around Yul, he and his horse visit homes with children. Midwinter, we leave our shoes out by the heart fire and place carrots inside them for Sliepner, and the next morning they're filled with small gifts.

I learned about how you celebrate Christmas. A lot of your so called 'christmas traditions' start from ours-like leaving gifts, but with stockings instead of shoes. You also have the christmas tree, which comes from the tradition of the yul log.