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Sedna with long flowing hair surrounded by sea creatures from Inuit mythology

Sedna, Goddess of the Sea

In the frozen lands of the far north, where the wind howls across endless fields of snow and the sea glitters with cold light, the people tell of a woman whose sorrow shaped the oceans. Her name is Sedna, and she is both a goddess and a warning. Her story begins on land, in the warmth of a small Inuit
Candlelit village dance where a stranger’s cloven hooves reveal the Devil in a French-Canadian folktale

The Devil at the Dance (Le Diable au Bal)

In the deep winters of old Quebec, when the snow lay thick upon the rooftops and the rivers were frozen in silence, the people of the small parishes found warmth not only in their hearths but in their gatherings. Dances were a cherished escape from the cold and the monotony
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