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Northern Lights shaped like spirits playing across the heavens from Inuit folklore

The Spirit of the Northern Lights (Aurora Spirits)

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October 28, 2025
On long winter nights in the Arctic, when the air is still and the stars shine like diamonds, the sky sometimes comes alive with colors that move and shimmer like living fire. Curtains of green, pink, and violet light ripple above the frozen land, twisting and turning as if unseen hands were drawing across the heavens. The Inuit call this
A wooden canoe flying across the moonlit sky with lumberjacks inside from French-Canadian folklore

La Chasse-Galerie (The Flying Canoe)

Long ago, in the deep frozen forests of Quebec, a group of lumberjacks worked through a bitterly cold winter. They lived far from home, surrounded by endless pines and the silence of snow. Their days were filled with hard labor, cutting trees from dawn to dusk. At night, they sat
A misty Newfoundland coastline at night with a glowing green ghost light above the sea inspired by the legend of Shipwreck Cove

The Ghost Light of Shipwreck Cove

October 29, 2025
On the rugged shores of Newfoundland, where the wind howls through the cliffs and the waves strike the rocks with endless fury, there lies a place known as Shipwreck Cove. It is a lonely inlet where fog clings to the sea like a spirit’s breath, and fishermen say that when
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Rose Latulipe dancing with the Devil at midnight in a candle-lit Quebec home from French-Canadian folklore

The Legend of Rose Latulipe

October 27, 2025
In the heart of a small Quebec village, nestled among rolling hills and snow-covered trees, there once lived a young woman named Rose Latulipe. She was known throughout the region for her beauty, charm, and love of dancing. Wherever there was music, laughter, and the sound of a fiddle, Rose
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