Look at the Christmas decorations here ... The mushroom turns into a happy personification named Santa." She said it with a laugh, but the connection between psychedelic mushrooms and the Santa ...

or Lord Christmas as he was also known, was the personification of a mid-winter feast of merrymaking for adults – and he brought no presents. He was useful as a symbol for Catholic-sympathising ...

Grýla did not get connected to Christmas until around the early ... Prior to that, she was “really a personification of the winter and the darkness and the snow getting closer and taking ...

The Civil War saw a boom in Puritanism which defied the season's opulence, but those against the sect instead created the kindly old man as a personification to defend Christmas. He regularly ...