Winter Spirits

Barbegazi
Caretaker of the Alps
The Jólasveinarnir
Yuletide Lads of Iceland
Uldra
The Little Reindeer People of Lapland
Leshy
Slavic Forest Guardian
The Callicantzari
The Yule Goblins of Greece
Windigo
Spirit of the Lonely Places
Spectral
Hounds of the Wild Hunt
Mithra
Lord of Heavenly Light

Sources:

Yule in Icelandwebsite
When Santa was a ShamanTony Van Renterghem
Encyclopedia Mythicawebsite
Enccyclopedia of Things that Never WereMichael Page & Robert Ingpen
The Book of ChristmasBrendan Lehane
Fairies and ElvesThe Editors of Time-Life Books
DwarfsThe Editors of Time-Life Books
The Complete Book Of GnomesRien Poortvliet
FairiesBrain Froud and Alan Lee
Bulfinch's MythologyUnknown
A Field Guide To GoblinsBrian Froud
Black Dogs: Guardians of the corpse waysBob Trubshaw; published on-line in At the Edge
Black dogs in folkloreBob Trubshaw; published on-line in At the Edge
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmTranslated by Jack Zipes
GlamourySteve Blamires
Celtic Myth and MagickEdain McCoy
The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient WorldDavid Ulansey
Gods and GoddessesThe Editors of Time-Life Books
Philosophical Research Society,website

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