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Newspaper
Pinehurst Outlook
Location
Pinehurst, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1914
Page
8
In a cold attic Bessie and Billie pretend a fairy grants wishes to find their mother. Billie summons a wand to help distressed children and avert danger as their mother enters, embraced in a heartfelt reunion. The sisters praise the magic brother who "brought you to me" as their dearest wish becomes reality.
The mistletoe custom traces to Saxon hospitality and Druid rites, evolving from a sacred plant to a social symbol of merrymaking. The kiss for every berry links to Scandinavian myth, while the church later treated mistletoe as pagan and kept it separate from holly in Yuletide decor.
The mistletoe’s legend spans healing gifts and exorcism to a midwinter festival. Ram, Celts’ high priest, dreamed of its power to save people from plague, founding Noel the feast yes. In Britain, its berries and leaves are omen of ill luck, tied to Druids’ curse on Devonshire and Ireland soils. Virgil notes mistletoe in Aeneid, Sybil guiding Odysseus and mistletoe’s mythic aura persists across eras.
My puzzle pops a name kids adore in winter tales and songs. Each clue hides a letter: first from single, second from wrangle, third from knot, fourth from crater, fifth mirrors you in my two, sixth from church, seventh from old, eighth from my five and two, ninth from hunter not setter, tenth repeats the first. The assembled name is cherished by children and spoken of this season.
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