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Merry Christmas LotS'ers!!!!! Join us for some amazing and weird Christmas traditions from around the world. For those with littles, I do talk about the origins of Santa, but never denounce the jolly old guy. I wanted to forewarn y'all just incase.
Happy Bday to us!!! It's our second birthday y'all!
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Eerie Lights on Instagram is David Weatherly's page. He's a well known author of countless books about cryptids.
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Abramson, S. (2007, November 21). Why do christmas carolers walk around the neighborhood singing? HowStuffWorks. Retrieved December 2, 2022, from https://people.howstuffworks.com/culture-traditions/holidays-christmas/christmas-caroler1.htm

Crocker, S. (2020, November 19). The untold truth of christmas witches. Grunge. Retrieved December 2, 2022, from https://www.grunge.com/282226/the-untold-truth-of-christmas-witches/

The eight strangest Christmas traditions on Earth: YHA Australia. The Eight Strangest Christmas Traditions on Earth | YHA Australia. (n.d.). Retrieved November 29, 2022, from https://www.yha.com.au/travel-and-tours/traveller-stories/the-eight-strangest-christmas-traditions-on-earth/

Magazine, S. (2016, December 19). Each christmas, Iceland's Yule Cat Takes Fashion Policing to the extreme. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved December 4, 2022, from https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/each-christmas-icelands-yule-cat-takes-fashion-policing-extreme-180961420/

Milligan, M. (2022, October 19). Original burial place of St Nicholas located by archaeologists. HeritageDaily. Retrieved November 30, 2022, from https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/10/original-burial-place-of-st-nicholas-located-by-archaeologists/145022

Patterson, L. (2017, December 22). A Catalan log that Poops Nougats at Christmas. NPR. Retrieved December 6, 2022, from https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/12/22/572569325/caga-ti-a-catalan-log-that-poops-nougats-at-christmas

Rosato, E. (2018, October 31). The lady lived once, but was buried twice. BBC News. Retrieved December 6, 2022, from https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-46026619

Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, December 6). Christmas pickle. Wikipedia. Retrieved December 6, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle

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Hey y'all thank you for joining us for this special Patreon preview! It's gonna be a lot looser than a regular episode and I'm joined by none other than producer Mike! I hope y'all like it and get a laugh or two out of it. I'll leave it available on all platforms for about two weeks, before it goes behind the Patreon paywall. Thank you all for listening to the special episode about the royals, their superstitions and harbingers.
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Citations
8 bizarre superstitions of the British royal family. Reader's Digest Australia. (n.d.). Retrieved September 11, 2022, from https://www.readersdigest.com.au/culture/8-bizarre-superstitions-of-the-british-royal-family

Kirsty.Oram. (2018, August 3). Charles I (r. 1625-1649). The Royal Family. Retrieved September 11, 2022, from https://www.royal.uk/charles-i

Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, August 1). Ravens of the Tower of London. Wikipedia. Retrieved September 11, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravens_of_the_Tower_of_London

Wikimedia Foundation. (2022, September 9). List of Royal Weddings. Wikipedia. Retrieved September 21, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_royal_weddings

Brief history of Fort Frederica and the odd and haunting history Of Christ Church. If you have a story you'd like to have shared on the show please email me at [email protected]
IV, Lewis Powell. “‘There's a Light’-Christ Church, Frederica.” Southern Spirit Guide, 24 Dec. 2018, www.southernspiritguide.org/theres-a-light-christ-church-frederica/.

Cox, Dale. Christ Church and Cemetery - St. Simons Island, Georgia, www.exploresouthernhistory.com/christchurch.html.

Fort Frederica National Monument (U.S. National Park Service). www.nps.gov/fofr/index.htm.
Did you know that in 1943, Georgia became the first date to change its voting age from 21 to 18? Georgia lawmakers heard the outcry from the young soldiers old enough to fight old enough to vote and adjusted its laws. It took the rest of the country 28 years to also grant this right to those old enough to fight.
Welcome to the Law of the South of the South.
Hey y'all. Welcome back to Lord the South with me, Kelly Crews. Back for round three. Feel like we're kind of getting into the swing of things around here. Are we sounding better? Good enough to leave a five star review, subscribe, follow, or download? All those things. Help to bring the Laura the South to more listeners.
If you can't do that, maybe just give us a share on social media or tell a friend about the show. Also, eventually I'd like to do a listener story. If you have a personal paranormal story or some family lore you'd like to share, send it to me at Lore of the [email protected]. Once we get enough stories sent in, we'll produce a special all about y'all.
I may even share one from my own childhood. My family and I had the chance to stay on St. Simon's Island a couple of years ago for a short little vacation. And that is where today's story takes place. If you give us a follow on social media, I'll even share some of our pictures from our trip. Today's story is kind of a twofer, as I like to call them, or maybe a two for one.
If you don't speak my brand to Southern, we're gonna have a little brief history of Fort Fred Rica, and that's the area of St. Simon's Island where Christ Church and its graveyard are located. Then two tales of devotion that lasted beyond the grave. So maybe that's more like a three for, anyway, on with the show.
Fort Fred Rica and the spirits of Christchurch graveyard only three years after the settlement of Savannah Georgia, the Honorable General James Oglethorpe has ordered the creation of two new fortified garrisons on the Southern barrier Islands off of the Georgia Coast in order to better protect his majesty's colonies from the Catholic threat to the south, the first of which will be known as Fort Freda.
Located at the north end of St. Simon's Island. Fort Fred Rica wasn't just a fortified garrison, but also a town, a quite sophisticated one sometimes compared to that of Williamsburg, Virginia. The main street running through the town was known as the Broad Street. Each business at home were built on equal sized plots and each were given a bit of green space for gardening, for Rica, grew all manners of fruits and vegetables.
From peaches to pomegranates, their plantings were quite diverse. The little military community thrived with the help from supplies from the English crown. But once the Spanish were defeated, Fort Fred Rica had served its purpose and the troops were disbanded. Without the support of the Garrison troops, the town slowly withered the final death Noll ring when wet remained of the town was destroyed by fire in 1758.
The lands on the island were then divided up and became large plantations, nearly all of whom would be served by Christchurch. The first churches were held by Reverend Charles and John Wesley in 1736. Upon the foundin

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I'm calling this episode a southern quickie, blink and its over! We touch on the history of a couple southern traditions and also share a few listener traditions as well. Merry Christmas from Lore of the South!
“Here Are a Couple Southern Christmas Traditions You May Not Have Heard of.” The Porch Company, 10 Apr. 2017, porchco.com/couple-southern-christmas-traditions-may-not-heard/.

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Thank you for joining us on E53 Halloween Episode. Hear about the odd origins of a few classic Fairytales and Nursery Rhymes. And thanks to Doc Esing for permission to read out his children's story Dubois Jack the Pumpkin King
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Citations
Campbell, A. J. (2019, February 15). Legend: You'll see a ghost if you stand on this bridge at night. 11Alive.com. Retrieved October 28, 2022, from https://www.11alive.com/article/news/ghost-hunting-on-helen-georgias-haunted-bridge/85-5adbae43-5cb8-488a-a183-eff219c8454c

Kiger, P. J. (2015, January 15). 10 fairy tales that are way darker than you realized as a kid. HowStuffWorks. Retrieved October 28, 2022, from https://people.howstuffworks.com/10-dark-fairy-tales.htm

Lang, K. (2021, May 5). The true story behind beauty and the beast. HistoryvsHollywood.com. Retrieved October 28, 2022, from https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/beauty-and-the-beast/

Lukošius, S. (2022, October 22). 30 random creepy facts to deprive somebody of sleep. Bored Panda. Retrieved October 23, 2022, from https://www.boredpanda.com/creepy-facts/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Roller, S. (2021, October 22). The disturbing origins of Fairy tales. History Hit. Retrieved October 28, 2022, from https://www.historyhit.com/the-disturbing-origins-of-fairy-tales/

Serena, K. (2021, June 16). The bodies of dead climbers on Everest are serving as guideposts. All That's Interesting. Retrieved October 23, 2022, from https://allthatsinteresting.com/mount-everest-bodies

Yen CabagYen Cabag is the Blog Writer of TCK Publishing. She is also a homeschooling mom. (2022, May 23). 8 dark nursery rhymes. TCK Publishing. Retrieved October 28, 2022, from https://www.tckpublishing.com/dark-nursery-rhymes/

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