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Think about what winters are like where you live. Are they chilly and snowy? Or are

temperatures more moderate? Today's story takes place in a spot where winters are intense.

Thanks in part to a supernatural spirit with a very cold shoulder.

I'm Rebecca Sheer and welcome to Circle Round, where story time happens all the time.

Today our story is called The Blizzard Wizard. Versions of this tale have been told among

the indigenous peoples of far north Siberia near the Arctic Ocean. Some really great

people came together to bring you our adaptation of this folktale, including Vivian Lyra Blair,

who stars as young Princess Leia in the Disney Plus Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi, and

grown-ups you can see Vivian in the new feature film The Boogie Man.

So Circle Round everyone, for The Blizzard Wizard.

In the far north, we're the vast, treeless, tundra reaches as far as the eye can see.

A long-haired girl named Iyana lived with her mother, a talented seamstress. In Iyana's

part of the world, most of the year it was winter, which meant plenty of long nights and

short days. So soon after Iyana greeted the sun as it peaked its head above the horizon.

Hello, sun! She bit it farewell, has it dipped back down again.

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