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

By Lionrhod

It's the night before Christmas. All the woodland animals are making gifts for the newborn King. But poor Spider doesn't have a gift. What will she do? A traditional Yule tale from Poland, as told to me by my father.

Also included is information on the Yule holiday in Poland as well as recipes for holiday food and ornaments.

Most stories of the Yule spider take place indoors. This one connects Jesus with the light of the Sun and the magical night of Wiglia (Vigil Night - Christmas Eve) when, according to Polish folk tales, the animals are said to speak as humans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lionrhod
• Release date: Dec 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310393730

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 Christmas Gift

A Children's FolkTale

& Polish holiday traditions

by

Lionrhod

Copyright 2013 Lionrod

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For Dad and Babcia Aniela

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

Christmas Traditions from Poland

The Spider's Christmas Gift

Author's Notes and Acknowledgments

About the Author

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