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Holiday and seasonal customs shaped by folklore and community.
Parchment-style artwork of the Snow Woman on a frozen river guiding a traveller, French-American folktale scene

The Snow Woman: American Folktale of the Northern Winter

In the frozen wilderness of the Upper Great Lakes, where icy winds sweep through pine forests and snow blankets the world in white silence, tales of the Snow Woman have drifted through generations of French-American voyageurs and Métis settlers. Among them, this winter folktale holds both awe and fear, a reminder that beauty and danger often share the same face.

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