In Icelandic folklore, Gryla is a giant troll with hooves for feet. Each Christmas, Gryla comes down from her mountain cave to hunt for naughty children, dragging them home in a sack so she can cook them for her Christmas stew. (She also ate a few h
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The Little Girl and the Winter Whirlwinds
Unknown Bulgarian Author
Bulgarian
One year the wicked Winter Witch decided to stop Spring from coming on time and make Winter the only season on Earth. She hid the Sun behind dark c
"Santa Claus drives out of sight." Illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith. Published in Twas the Night Before Christmas, Clement Moore (1912), Houghton Mifflin Company.
THE ELVES AND THE SHOEMAKER
There was once a shoemaker, who worked very hard and
