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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[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.