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AnnCrystal
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Today, I'm appreciating some Seasonal Fun 💚🤍❤️

Thank You @Deblovestoread for #mondaymood 💝💝💝.

Deblovestoread ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ 1d
AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread 🥳👍🏼💚💃🤍. 19h
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AnnCrystal @dabbe 🥳💚❄️🤍💃. 9h
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AnnCrystal
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Fast forward in time...

“In Protestant countries of Europe, St. Nick devotions disappeared except in Holland where his legend persisted as Sinterklass.“

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AnnCrystal Fast forward some more...

“Dutch colonist brought Sinterklass with them to New Amsterdam (New York) in the late 17th century, which was adapted by the English-speaking majority by the name Santa Claus.“

“The legend of the kindly old man was united with old Nordic folktales of a magician who punished naughty children and rewarded good children with presents.“

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AnnCrystal Double check these notes, this is from research I have been gathering over the years and it is always good to triple research history...then research again.

My notes seem endless, but I tried to give the main historical essentials here.

@BookmarkTavern, These notes are better organized than the random notes I gave you a few days ago. I hope you enjoy reading through this post 🎅🏻💚🤍❤️.
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TheBookHippie Thx for this! 4d
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie 😘👍🏼❤️🎅🏻💚. 3d
dabbe ♥️💙💚 3d
BookmarkTavern Oh this is lovely! Thank you so much for tagging me! ❤️💚❤️💚 3d
AnnCrystal @dabbe 😘👍🏼💚🎅🏻❤️. 3d
AnnCrystal 🥳 I'm glad you enjoyed @BookmarkTavern 😘👍🏼❤️🎅🏻💚. 3d
PatriciaU I just researched an exhibit on Christmas and Yule customs in early 19th century western New York. The variety of Santa type figures globally is amazing, but I found the plethora of figures intent on punishing even more fascinating! 3d
AnnCrystal @PatriciaU 👏🏼🤩👍🏼 💚🤍❤️.

The variety of Santa type figures from around the world is truly incredible...even the many different styles/personalities/names of “Santa Claus“ himself is amazing.

The punishers always seem to be overlooked, but are fascinating too, especially when looking into their origin stories.

And the festivals, how the world incorporate these figures into their celebrations.

Have you read about the female legends? 👇🏼
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AnnCrystal The Female Christmas and Winter legends aways seem most difficult to source.

You may enjoy La Befana, and the darker legends of Grýla, and Frau Perchta.

❤️🤍💚🎅🏻💚🤍❤️.
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PatriciaU The Female figures - yes! The common story I found involves the old woman opening her door to the Wise Men, giving directions but refusing to accompany them, then changing her mind. She then spends eternity looking for the Christ Child. 3d
AnnCrystal @PatriciaU 👏🏼🥳👍🏼 that's the version I am familiar with too. I believe the legend of La Befana teaches us an important lesson, because she chose her duty over chores and missed an opportunity of a lifetime 💚✨🌟✨🤍👑👑👑❤️. 2d
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AnnCrystal
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Hope everyone had a splendid, fun, peaceful long weekend!

We made Croutons from homemade bread to use for homemade stuffing...and snuck some aside for snacking 🍞😋👍🏼💝.

Happy First Day of December! Let the countdown to Christmas begin 💚💃🤍🥳❤️.

#californiananncrystal
#craftbyanncrystal

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Been watching some grand specials during this Native American Heritage Month...there is just one “string of words“ that “some“ use that always utterly irks me...the continued insistence that the Indigenous of the Americas “came from somewhere“ 👀🤨🤬 Those of my Ancestral World has always been on these Lands since Time immemorial! Created for these Lands! ✊🏼

#mondaymood
@Deblovestoread

#californiananncrystal
#litsycommunitylittenanncrystal

AnnCrystal
Just Saying ✊🏼🤗✌🏼.
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Deblovestoread ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. Thank you for posting. (edited) 3w
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Bette ❤️🦖👍😊 3w
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😘👌🏼 @Deblovestoread 🥰👍🏼💖💖💖.
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AnnCrystal @dabbe 🌞💝💝💝. (edited) 3w
AnnCrystal @Bette 😉🦕🦖💖💖💖. (edited) 3w
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AnnCrystal @kspenmoll ☺️💗💗💗. 3w
AnnCrystal @lil1inblue 😉💖💗💝. 3w
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AnnCrystal @Jari-chan 🌞💕💖💝. 3w
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AnnCrystal
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Thank You
🥲🇺🇸🦅🇺🇲🌟❤️🤍💙.

🐻 #californiananncrystal

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AnnCrystal @dabbe 😉👍🏼💙🇺🇲🤍🦅💖. 1mo
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AnnCrystal
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Today is Dia De Los Muertos, Day Of The Dead, All Souls Day.

A Celebration when our loved ones who have journeyed on into the afterlife come to gather with their livings.

Ghosts and Spirits can visit us any day of they year, but Dia De Los Muertos is like a reunion.

This is a gathering of ghosts...children, family members, friends, ancestors, our animal babies, all of our loved ones.

To all Littens who celebrate, cheers to Magical Nostalgia.

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To those who celebrate, hope that your day is peaceful and safe.

For those who saw my pumpkin post, I felt it needed to be deleted after learning about an attempted terrorist attack. Thankfully it was prevented.

Littens, be safe out there.

AnnCrystal
🙏🏼🇺🇸🦅🇺🇲🕊️🌟❤️🤍💙✌🏼.
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AnnCrystal Thank You Littens of Litsy, for creating this safe place in this crazy world 📚💝. 1mo
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Hope everyone had a safe, and magically spooky Halloween.

🥳🎃👻💃💛🧡🤍.

Found this on the web. Not familiar with the characters, yet it sweetly captures the essential meaning.

November 1st is Día de los Angelitos (Day of the Little Angels) and honors deceased children.

November 2nd is the main Día de los Muertos, dedicated to honoring all deceased loved ones, including children, friends, and our animal babies.

💝🥲👻💝.

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AnnCrystal @dabbe 👻💛🧡🤍. (edited) 1mo
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AnnCrystal
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Halloween is here!?! Someone hit pause, this year is just speeding along way too fast!

Following this post, I will be posting the last Petite Story for awhile. I hope everyone has enjoyed my Petite Stories this Halloween season 2025.

I made this forthcoming Petite Story a bit longer than usual as a Halloween special.

Littens of Litsy, hope you all have a Spooky Fun Halloween!

🎃✍🏼👻💃🪄💫💛🧡🤍📚.

#petitestories
#petitestoriesbyAnnCrystal

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AnnCrystal @dabbe 🪄📚😉💛🧡🤍. 1mo
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AnnCrystal
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🧐🤨🤬

What Hegseth is referring to, can only truly be described as a Massacre.

The Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890 began when a bunch of 🤬🤬🤬 (U.S. Army soldiers) attacked a largely disarmed Lakota encampment in South Dakota.

“Women and children were indiscriminately slaughtered at the Wounded Knee Massacre. Estimates vary, but many sources indicate that women and children accounted for nearly half of the Lakota casualtie.“

AnnCrystal They changed “Defense“ back to “War“ and now they have (officially) begun honoring some of the genocide done right here in America 🤨🤬.

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CBee Thank you for speaking out. I am appalled and disgusted by this. It‘s horrifying. 2mo
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GingerAntics 🤮 gross!!! anything to be monstrous, this administration is ALL about. 2mo
MemoirsForMe 😱🤬🤯 2mo
ncsufoxes I can‘t with Botox Boy. What do we expect from a man banning books but hawking his own book. Anyhow…at the Harvard Natural History Museum in their Peabody Museum they have an exhibit that has accurate history about what happened to the Indigenous people. They practice Ethical Stewartship in Action. They are trying to provide more accurate history & working with Indigenous learn more as well as working to preserve history. 2mo
Deblovestoread Every day they outdo there selves with their disgusting choices. It is all horrific 🤬🤬🤬 2mo
AnnCrystal Thank You 🫂 @CBee This is truly unsettling ✊🏼😘💝. 2mo
AnnCrystal 😢🫂 @GingerAntics I couldn't believe this, to literally state that these people deserved to be honored for such horrors is shocking ✊🏼🤨💝. 2mo
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🫂 @MemoirsForMe ✊🏼🥺💝. 2mo
AnnCrystal Thank You @ncsufoxes for sharing The Peabody Museum at Harvard Natural History Museum 👏🏼🥲. This is very important right now, for powerful institutions to help expose truths... because this administration is seemingly trying to remove true history from public viewing. ✊🏼🫂💝💝💝.

I'm adding your Hashtags to this
#realhistory
#honesthistory
😉👍🏼💝.
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AnnCrystal 😢🫂 @Deblovestoread horrifically insensitive ✊🏼🤨💝. 2mo
Amiable I want to say they never learned history but it‘s apparent that they do know what happened —and they actually approve of it. 😖🤬 2mo
GingerAntics @AnnCrystal it is, and it‘s not. It‘s right up their alley, that‘s for sure. If a white man did it, it‘s worthy of honour. No questions asked. If anyone else did it, it‘s probably just an illegal alien they need to send to El Salvador, even if white duded stole their land in the first place. 2mo
GingerAntics @AnnCrystal I‘m surprised they‘re not reviving the reservation system so the only people not on reservations are white Christian nationalists. 2mo
Suet624 I can‘t stand these people. Cruelty and bravado seem to be their thing. 2mo
dabbe Everything Littens above said. And thanks for the new hashtag, #botoxboy, @ncsufoxes. PERFECT for that asshole! 🧡🩶💜 2mo
AnnCrystal 🫂 @Amiable that's the infuriating frustrating fact. And scary because they are in charge of our Government and Military Forces. They are setting an unsettling tone for all of us ✊🏼🤬💝. 2mo
AnnCrystal @GingerAntics 👏🏼😢✊🏼🤬🥺💝. 2mo
AnnCrystal @Suet624 true, and the fact that people like this are running our country right now...✊🏼🥺✊🏼🤬💝. 2mo
AnnCrystal 😘 @dabbe ✊🏼🤬🥺💝. 2mo
Bette This is incredible and awful. I sit here stunned. Thanks for sharing. (Everyday something horrible happens … when will I stop being shocked?) Keep promoting honest history. 👍 2mo
AnnCrystal 🫂 @Bette I know what you mean, don't know why i continue to become shocked either. True, sharing honest history is truly important during times like these ✊🏼😉✊🏼🦅💝. 2mo
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