@archadia @troubleMoney
Yay for zombie Christmas horsie!
Take this with a pinch of proverbial, but some modern myth-makers allege she represents the pregnant mare kicked out of a Bethlehem stable to make room for the baby Jesus. Now she's condemned to roam the world all pregnant and rotting and bony ~forever!~ until she finds somewhere to give birth to her own foal!
Also supposedly an analogy for earlier horse-themed pagan religions pushed rudely out of the way to make room for… you guessed it