holda (of germanic legends)

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holda (of germanic legends)

Postby viznew » Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:01 pm

holda

Germanic legends, Frau Holda (or Frau Holle) was the protectress of agriculture and women's crafts. Holda, Holle, Huld, and Hulda may be cognate of the Scandinavian creature known as the huldra. Jacob Grimm made an attempt to establish her as a Germanic goddess.

She was considered to ride with witches on distaffs, which closely resemble the brooms that witches are thought to ride.

These women would leave their houses in spirit, going "out through closed doors in the silence of the night, leaving their sleeping husbands behind". They would travel vast distances through the sky, to great feasts, or to battles amongst the clouds

A 16th-century fable recorded by Erasmus Alberus speaks of "an army of women" with sickles in hand sent by Frau Hulda. Thomas Reinesius in the 17th century speaks of Werra of the Voigtland and her "crowd of maenads

whereby men and women were thought to leave their bodies in spirit and follow a goddess variously called Holda, Diana, Herodias, Signora Oriente, Richella, Arada and Perchta

Holda figures in some pre-Christian Alpine traditions that have survived to modern times. During the Christmas period in the alpine regions of Germany, Austria and northern Switzerland, wild masked processions are still held in a number of towns, impersonating Holda, Perchta or related beings, and the wild hunt.


Ok now my part


go to sleep very rare chance you are teleported to a place like valhalla you pertake in a battle with only a sickle in hand dressed as one of these mask persesstions things here is two confirmed costumes that have been wore on the reg to these things
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if you manage to slay the (boss) you wake up fully restored with a broom and if you take broom and sweep your farms it wears down but raises q slightly

basicly a sleep dungeon lol kinda crazy but german legendary creatures feature sleep alot
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