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On November 1, 1992, the Danish newspaper Berlingske Tidende reported on costumed children carving pumpkins at a restaurant in Hellerup, outside Copenhagen.
In a Canadian advertisement reproduced from the Christmas 1907 edition of the Toronto Globe, the Prairies appear beneath the words “The Last Best West.” Grain fields, farm buildings and cattle accompany promises of “illimitable opportunities” and “healthy happy homes.”
In August 1924, the Finnish-language newspaper Canadan Uutiset carried a report from Strongfield, Saskatchewan, about a dispute over a library.
Before the candles could be dipped, everyone at Överby parsonage had work to do.
Edvard Ström spent part of his childhood there, on Sweden’s west coast, between 1814 and 1825. In recollections recorded late in the nineteenth century and published by Bohusläns Museum, he remembered the household twisting cotton and tow yarn into wicks while his aunt Anna Lisa prepared for candle making. A tall copper vessel was carried into the servants’ room, wrapped in blankets and mats to retain its heat, more than half-filled with boiling water and topped with melted tallow.
In the medieval Icelandic Ynglinga saga, King Vanlandi has been asleep only a short time when he cries out that a mara is treading on him.