Spider's Yule Gift: A Children's FolkTale and Polish Pagan Holiday Traditions

By Lionrhod

It's the night before the Winter Solstice. All the woodland animals are making gifts for the newborn Sun. But poor Spider doesn't have a gift. What will she do?

A traditional Yule tale from Poland returned to its pagan roots, based on the tale told by my father.

Also included is information on the Yule holiday in Poland and recipes and tips and ritual ideas to use them in a pagan context.

Most stories of the Yule spider take place indoors and don't have a Solar connection. This is the only one I've come across that celebrate the birth of the Sun and the magickal night when the animals speak.

The story itself is geared to be read aloud to children, however the tradition information is for adults.

A Christian-friendly version of this book is also available, titled "Spider's Christmas Gift."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lionrhod
• Release date: Dec 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310787508

Lionrhod

A writer of fantasy and non-fiction metaphysics, Lionrhod (pronounced LION-rod as the h is silent) caught the writing bug at age 8. Inspired by her writer mother, she wrote an extremely lousy and highly plagiarized story about a pony. From there, she went on to focus on science fiction and fantasy as well as romance, and when she realized that she was a Witch, articles on Wicca and Magick. As an avid Dungeons and Dragon's player, she has written several articles for that sort of thing and one of her pieces was featured in a TSR module way back before they became Wizards of the Coast. She has also written for Green Egg.She tends to write slow, though that is changing!She has been a witch and wysard (yes we spell it funny) for most of her life. She works as a professional psychic and a teacher of metaphysics. When she isn't glued to the keyboard, she enjoys hiking in the woods, gardening, cooking and yak wrangling. She is presently working on creating a rescue for large breed dogs and for retired animals.

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The Spider's Yule Gift

A Children's FolkTale

& Polish-Pagan Holiday Traditions

by

Lionrhod

Copyright 2013 Lionrod

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Cover Design by Kent Gladden

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For Dad and Babcia Aniela

For my dearest sister Janette, who was a lover of tradition.

And for my beloved nieces and nephew: Kayla, Shaelyn, Amanda, Zac, Violet and Melody, so that you can pass on the tales of our family.

Table of Contents

Yule Traditions from Poland

Solstice Celebrations

The Spider's Yule Gift

Author's Notes and Acknowledgments

About the Author

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Yule Traditions from Poland

In Poland, the Old Ways still survive beneath the veneer of Christianity. My Babcia often did little things that were most likely spells and folk ways. Other than teaching me herbalism, cooking and holiday traditions, most of her knowledge was lost when she passed. I am grateful however for what I did learn from her, and the