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Do You Want to Kill a Snowman?

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Nathan

I had been wanting to write something about snowman characters in video games, with one that immediately came to mind being Rusty the Snowman in Earthworm Jim, who breathes fireballs. Sounds like he’s as self-destructive as the They Might Be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Art, Donkey Kong, Humor, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Prejudice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, They Might Be Giants, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, antisemitism, bad mr. frosty, banjo-kazooie, battletoads, bleak the snowman, book of hours, chilly, clayfighter, cool cool mountain, donkey kong country 3, dr. freezegood, earthworm jim, evil the cat, frosty the hit man, michelangelo buonarroti, mr. blizzard, mr. frosty, penguins, robots, rusty the snowman, sir slush, snowman's land, snowmen, super mario 64, teenage mutant ninja turtles ii: the arcade game, weather, winter, yoshi's island | 1 Comment

You Bring the Winter

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Nathan

The Cailleach is a name for a Celtic goddess generally associated with winter, but as with a lot of deities, there’s more to her than that. She has several names, duties, and forms depending on the locality. One commonly used … Continue reading →

Posted in Celtic, Holidays, Mythology | Tagged beira, cailleach, cailleach bheara, deer, groundhog's day, imbolc, weather, winter, witches, wolves | Leave a comment

Sidhe Bop

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Nathan

I’ve been reading a lot recently, but a bit sporadically. There are some library books I want to finish before starting on anything I own. I’m pretty anxious to read more of The Lost Tales of Oz, but I kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Arthurian Legend, Authors, Book Reviews, British, Catholicism, Characters, Christianity, Greek Mythology, History, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, october daye, Oz, Religion, seanan mcguire | Tagged a glimmer of hope, a wizard in rhyme, beowulf, billina, button-bright, christopher stasheff, crimes against magic, cuttenclips, erik the red, fairies, hellequin chronicles, king arthur, king richard coeur de leon, late eclipses, mordred, polychrome, prose edda, puck, robin hood, saga six pack, san francisco, siegfried, sigurd, snorri sturluson, steve mchugh, the oathbound wizard, the rainbow daughter in oz, trojan war, undines, vikings, volsung saga, weather | 2 Comments

When the Volcano Blow

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Nathan

I wrote last week about Dorothy’s tornado and other natural disasters that opened the way to Oz or the surrounding fairylands, and this time I’m going to look at ones within fairyland itself. We don’t really hear of many bad … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick Martin, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged betsy bobbin, betsy bobbin of oz, blazes, captain salt in oz, cork mountain, davy jones, ev, geysers, grampa in oz, greg hunter, land of mo, lucky bucky in oz, maybe the miffin, natural disasters, nonestic ocean, ripple lands, rolling country, soap hollow, storms, subterranea, the giant horse of oz, the gnome king of oz, the ozmapolitan of oz, the purple prince of oz, the salt sorcerer of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tornadoes, torpedo town, trade winds, uptown, volcanoes, weather, whirligig winds, winds, wizard of oz | 1 Comment

This Tornado Loves You

Posted on June 1, 2017 by Nathan

There was a bit of a theme in the early Oz books about Dorothy reaching fairyland by means of natural disasters. We all know about the cyclone, then there was a storm at sea in Ozma of Oz and an … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alexander volkov, betsy bobbin, cap'n bill, cyclones, dorothy and the wizard in oz, earthquakes, glinda, good witch of the north, hurricanes, jeremy steadman, laura jane musser, lurline, magic land, michael patrick hearn, natural disasters, nome king, onsi, oziana, ozma of oz, peter brown, pirates in oz, prince pompadore in oz, sky island, storms, tales of magic land, the annotated wizard of oz, the gnome king of oz, the romance of the silver shoes, the scarecrow of oz, the sea fairies, the witch queen of oz, the wizard of the emerald city, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, time in oz, tompy terry, tornadoes, trot griffiths, weather, whirlpools, wicked witch of the east, yankee in oz | 5 Comments

A Reign Over Rain

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Nathan

I believe the Rain King is first mentioned in Tik-Tok of Oz, in which we’re told, “The Rain King got too much water in his basin and spilled some over the brim. That made it rain in a certain part … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Gina Wickwar, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged fanny the weather witch, polychrome, rain king, rainbow, the hidden prince of oz, the purple prince of oz, the runaway in oz, the silver princess in oz, tik-tok of oz, weather | 5 Comments

The Old Windbag

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Nathan

Since there’s supposed to be a hurricane hitting this area, I suppose it would appropriate to talk about a wind god. I already wrote about the Greco-Roman personifications of the winds, so let’s move on to China and their wind … Continue reading →

Posted in Chinese, Greek Mythology, Mythology | Tagged aeolus, dragons, eirene, fei lian, feng bo, horae, hu-yi, hurricane irene, odysseus, shen-yi, weather, winds, yellow emperor huangdi | 2 Comments

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Do You Want to Kill a Snowman?

You Bring the Winter

Sidhe Bop

When the Volcano Blow

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