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| Title Statement | The dead of winter: the demons, witches and ghosts of Christmas / Sarah Clegg. |
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| Author | Clegg, Sarah |
| Publication | Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,2024. |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Extent of Item | 193 pages |
| ISBN | 9781643757087 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr07709880 |
| General Notes | "Beware the Krampus and other wicked Christmas creatures"--Cover. |
| Contents | The year walk --Lords of misrule --Monstrous visitors --Horse skulls and hoodenings --Punishing the wicked --The Christmas witches --- Old gods --The dead of winter. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary | "Historian Sarah Clegg delves deep into the folklore of the Christmas season in Europe, detailing the way its terrifying and often debaucherous past continues to haunt and entertain us now in the twenty-first century"-- |
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| By Topic | Christmas--Folklore |
| Christmas--Europe | |
