#lussinatta

[furmity]

Lussinatta

On the old calender Saint Lucia's feast fell on the winter solstice, which makes it a date I can rotate into the Antipodean winter. My Jul- in- June's longest night is therefor the Lussinatta, when she rides with the trolls and snatches people away. She checks that all the Jul preparations are complete, and will curse a lazy household.

For Lussinatta 2023 I had deep- cleaned the house, planned my rituals, and made some tasty little buns- I was ready for her. My vigil did not last the night, with a fly agaric- induced dream that Lussi was an echidna scratching around outside.

Thus was the Lore of the Solstice Echidna received.

It was kind of a joke until there were echidna diggings by the hörgr this December 13th. Counting down to the summer solstice, then Christmas Jul, she came by.

So it just got serious and Lussi has an icon in her Solstice Echidna form.

Oh Saint Lussi please be merciful upon me for being one ingredient short for the Lussikatter on your proper feast day.

[folkcorewitch]

Lussevaka 🌟 after the deep darkness always come the light. Inspired by the Scandinavian believes that on the 12th December, Lussi the winter witch, comes during night with her horde Lussiferda, to steal the souls of the living who wander outside, or destroys homes that are untidy. The best way to guard oneself from evil is to light as much candles as possible and to stay awake through the night. On the 13th the light bringing Saint Lucy will make the demons go away until next year.

[a-tatter-of-crows]

The snow has arrived where I am. All is bleak, cold, and dark again. At last. Light the candles.

[bunad]

Saint Lucy celebration

Illustration of Saint Lucy day in Sweden some time between 1840s-1850s

by Fritz von Dardel

Nordiska Museet

[captainmera]

Merry Lucia / Lussinatta :) <3

Read In Blood We Rise here: Tumblr | Comicfury

[mannazandwyrd]

Loki, Winter Solstice, Lussinatta, Santa Lucia’s Day, and a ginger cookie recipe

Thanks to Dagulf Loptson sharing in her book PLAYING WITH FiRE (page 220 or location 4041 on my Kindle copy) her UPG that Loki celebrates December 13th as something like a birthday, people have been connecting the dots between Loki and a winter solstice celebration:

https://ladyofthelake.blog/2018/12/14/lokis-holiday-dec-13th/

https://lokiheals.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/loki-day-december-13/amp/

About Santka Lucia’s Day in Sweden: https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/sweden.shtml and Saint Lucy’s / Santa Lucia’s Day’s roots as the winter solstice festival and Lussinatta: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day

So, yeah, a date long associated with all-night parties after a mad rush to get ready for Yule and escape Lussi’s wrath? That’s been celebrated for millennia with ginger cookies and saffron bread? I can totally see a Certain Hearthfire Deity with a taste for ginger and a love of a good party adopting that as Their Day, or possibly reclaiming it as theirs if Lussi was originally an aspect of Loki and the connection was lost over time. Maybe that’s also a reason we associate Loki with the number 13?

Anyway, here’s an old recipe from my family in the Canadian Maritime provinces to help you celebrate December 13th, the solstice, or Yule with our favourite redheaded mooch:

Gingerbread or Ginger Snap Cookie Recipe

250 mL brown sugar

250 mL butter or shortening

250 mL fancy molasses

2 eggs

15 mL ginger powder

5 mL salt

1125 mL all-purpose flour (sifted)

30 mL baking powder dissolved in 60 mL milk

Preheat oven to 375 F / 180 C

Mix dry ingredients and set aside

Cream butter until soft, then add sugar, molasses, eggs, and soda-milk mixture while mixing well. Add the dry ingredients a bit at a time until you’ve used it up; dough will form s ball. Roll out on a lightly floured board, thicker than 1cm for a soft cookie, thinner with extra flour for a brittle snap. Cut with floured cutter, place on parchment-lined cookie sheet, and bake for 12 minutes. (Dough may be made ahead and frozen.)

(I’ll edit to add a photo once I find a local grocer who isn’t sold out of fancy molasses... substitution with blackstrap molasses made them too molasses-y and their colour too dark to easily judge crispiness coming out of the oven.)

[cinrey]

Lucia and Lussi

[rynanart]

A quick Lussi for Lussinatta.

Better be ready for Christmas or she’ll come for you tonight.