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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Sources
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
Unreal 