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Winter Magic From Yule Goat Lore - part 1

Winter Magic From Yule Goat Lore - part 1

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I am not going to say much about the Yule Log tradition this year. But I think it is worth reminding that the Yule word comes from a nordic word that writes out as Jul, Jöl, or Yol, that Saxons seem to have turned around to write out as Geol. 

Before we had adopted the still fairly modern Christmas, and even much older observations of Winter Solstice, Yu…

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