Camonica Club of North America: Yule 2020 - The year finally comes to an end..

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Yule 2020 - The year finally comes to an end..

Cabin in the Snow (Windows 10 Spotlight)

Currently, "cabin in the snow" is the featured Bing image on Windows 10 Spotlight. I couldn't find the particular image they used, but the above fits the concept well. Some of the images have that fully "snowed in" look to them. The light emanating from the cabin, which is just entrenched in the snow, woods, mountains, etc. A few have a more empowering look to them, upon a higher plateau, a large clearing, and/or with more of a view.

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Bear Creek Country Kitchens

Since our early beginnings high in the Heber Valley of the Wasatch Mountains, Bear Creek Country Kitchens has delivered great hearty homestyle dishes that the whole family will enjoy. This is part of the text on one of their products, and I was curious about where these places are? Above is Mt. Nebo (11,929 ft.), the highest peak in the Wasatach Range in Utah. Although the company is now headquartered in New Jersey, apparently after being sold to larger corporations on more than one occasion, they were founded in central Utah on the western edge of the Rocky Mountains. The name "Bear Creek Country" is just a brand, and not applicable to the geography in that region. The Heber Valley and Heber City (below) are adjacent to the Wasatch Mountains.

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Yule and Full Cold Moon

Yule is usually celebrated between December 20 through 23, but of course officially it's December 21; the Winter Solstice, the first day of winter. With traditions such as the Yule log, it could be celebrated for two weeks or so. The Full Cold Moon will occur on the evening of Tuesday, December 29 at 7:28 PST.

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'The Curse of the Bayou'

On Tuesday, December 22, the TV program 'Atlas of Cursed Places' on the National Geographic channel (276 on DirecTV) will be airing an episode entitled 'The Curse of the Bayou'.

[I didn't get this post off when I wanted to, but if you don't get this in time... they replay these, often prior to the next episode next week]

In 1915 in Louisiana, a local hoodoo practitioner and healer named, Aunt Julia, was enraged at the loggers cutting down her swamp so she invoked a curse on the people and the land. On the day of her death a deadly hurricane swept through the bayou destroying 3 towns and killing most of the people living in it. A century later, locals still blame all of the hardships in Louisiana on her curse.

Legend of Julia Brown

Some of the surviving locals began telling stories of a voodoo priestess named Julia Brown that predicted the event. According to local historians the town of Frenier had no doctors and Julia Brown likely served as the local healer. A few months before she died she began repeating the phrase "One day I'm gonna die, and I'm gonna take all of you with me."

Survivors said that a few weeks before the hurricane arrived she began sitting on her front porch rocking back and forth while playing her guitar and singing:

"When I die,

I take the whole town with me.

When I die,

I take the whole town."

-- Julia Brown

According to the legend on September 29, 1915 Julia Brown died and most of the population gathered to bury the voodoo priestess. During the funeral at around four o'clock the hurricane arrived and completely destroyed the town.

The Voodoo Priestess who Destroyed her Town | Julia Brown

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