Whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Kwanzaa, or you’ve just celebrated Hanukkah, Diwali or any other festive holiday - welcome to the Normal Not Normal Holiday special!

In this episode we hear all about your festive traditions. We find out how Hungarians get rid of witches at Christmas (it involves carpentry and poppy seeds), which monsters are prowling around at Chinese New Year and why you might find a fish in the bath during a Polish Christmas party!

Send in your most extraordinary storytimes, questions and ‘did-you-knows’ via video, voice note or old fashioned email to [email protected]

We'll be back next week with a very special guest. You can also find us on YouTube!

We want to say a thank you to listener Lucy Courtois for sending us her wonderful book Miracle: Endless Possibilities which is all about growing up with a visual impairment. Find it now on Amazon!

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Normal Not Normal is a Stabl production

Produced by Alice Homewood and Kate White

Music: 'Not Normal' by Sebastian Forslund

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