Yule is winter’s turning point.

Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shewn me, by an altered life.” – Ebenezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol

There’s something otherworldly about the days between Christmas and New Year. Known as Yule to our ancestors, it was a season of retreat. The harvest was done, provisions stored to endure the winter, and people steeled themselves for bleaker and leaner times ahead. Many believed that spirits roamed abroad during the l...