There is something magical about snow, but it’s also deceptive, and deadly – the perfect ingredient for dark tales on a cold winter’s night . . .

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Weather Lore

• Customs, Beliefs and Superstitions of the Different Festivals – Dúchas.ie
• Weather-Lore – Dúchas.ie
• Plucking Geese in Heaven – Dúchas.ie
• Signs of Snow – Dúchas.ie

Derbforgaill

• The Deaths of Lugaid and Derbforgaill – Carl Marstrander
• Cuchulainn’s Ríastrad: The Cuchullin Saga in Irish Literature – Eleanor Hull

Saints

• St Molasius (Silva Gaedelica, S. H. O’Grady)
• St Comghan (Mac Dá Cherda and Cummaine Foda - J. G. O'Keeffe)
• St Patrick (The Tripartite Life of St Patrick – Whitley Stokes)

Deirdre

• The Exile of the Sons of Uisliu – Vernam Hull

Sín and Muirchertach

• The Death of Muirchertach Mac Erca – Whitley Stokes

International Stories of the Snow

• Snow Drop – The Brothers Grimm
• The Snow Queen – Hans Christian Andersen
• Snegurochka

Music

• Dreams of the Brave – Trabant 33
• Sea of Clouds – Kai Engel
• Arctica – Kai Engel
• Kesh Jig, Leitrim Fancy – Sláinte
• Somewhere Else – Kai Engel
• Gander in the Pratie Hole, Morrison's Jig, Drowsy Maggie – Sláinte
• As Rainbows Fall – Deskant
• Surreal Forest – Meydän
• In the Bleak Midwinter – Maya Solovey

 

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