Jack

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Jack-in-the Green

A Jack in the Green or "Jack o' the Green" is in traditional English May Day parades and other May celebrations, who wears a large, foliage-covered, garland-like framework, usually pyramidal or conical in shape and is more like a christmas tree image , which completely covers their body from head to foot. The name is also applied to the garland itself and can be identified also with the mysterious Green Man wish widely felt to be an embodiment of natural fertility, a spirit of the primeval greenwood and wild life

Jack Frost

Jack Frost is an elfish creature who personifies crisp, cold, winter weather; a variant of Father Winter (AKA Old Man Winter). He is a figure some believe to have originated in Viking folklore.

He is said to leave frosty crystal patterns on the ground on cold mornings, mostly in winter months. In Viking folklore states that the English derived the name Jack Frost from the Norse characters such as: Jokul ("icicle") and Frosti ("frost"). Another theory is that he is a much more recent import into Anglo-Saxon culture from a Russian fairy tale. In the Finnish epos Kalevala Canto number 30, translated from Finnish into English by Keith Bosley, Jack Frost is the son of Blast, "Pakkanen Puhurin Poika" (see Finnish Kalevala). Other tales in Russia represent frost as Father Frost, a smith who binds water and earth together with heavy chains. In Germany however, it is an old woman ("Frau Holle") who causes it to snow by shaking white feathers from her goose which she rid on in winter nights.