page_title: Snow dance
section_title: Figures
hierarchical_section_title: Snow dance / Figures
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context_page_description: A snow dance is a ritual that is performed with the hopes of bringing snow in the winter months. This ritual is often performed with the goal of avoiding school or work the next day. Specific Snow Dance rituals vary from person to person, but commonly include sleeping with silverware under one's pillow, flushing ice cubes in a toilet, or wearing your pajamas inside out and backwards. Snow dancing and is often performed outside in sunny or rainy conditions as the participating dancer would want it to snow that day or week, rather than be rainy or sunny. Considered by many to be an urban legend, the Snow Dance is often referred to in jest.
context_section_description: Similar to characters such as Santa Claus, Befana, and Hajji Firuz, who symbolize a particular holiday, there are also figures that resemble the bringing of winter and snow  that many cultures associate with the weather. Such characters include Heikki Lunta, Jack Frost, Yuki-onna, Old Man Winter, Snow Queen, and many more. Oftentimes these characters are popular figures in a culture's history, religion, mythology, folklore, and/or literature.
  Heikki Lunta, created by David Riutta, is a snow god from Atlantic Mine, Michigan. This Finnish character was originated from a song titled “Heikki Lunta Snowdance Song”, which was created in 1970 to summon snowfall at Range Snowmobile Club's snowmobile race. According to the town, the song created an abundance of snow before the race prompting a second song to be written called “Heikki Lunta Go Away”.
  A more recent character personifying snow is Queen Elsa from Walt Disney’s movie Frozen. Elsa, who is based on the main character in Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen, has the powers to create and manipulate ice and snow. The movie brought in more than $1.2 billion in ticket sales. The booming popularity created a Frozen phenomenon resulting in movie fans blaming snowfall on the animated character of Queen Elsa.
  Jack Frost is a common figure associated with frost, snow, sleet, and other weather related extremities. The exact origin of Jack Frost remains unclear with suspicions of Norse and Ango-Saxon history. Jack is mentioned in holiday song “The Christmas Song” and has a presence among movies and wintertime specials including movies ‘’Jack Frost” and “Rise of the Guardians” and television series “A Touch of Frost”.
  Characters are major components in contemporary children's books, television shows, songs, movies, and oral tradition.
caption: Jack frost (3106502124)
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