What heavenly visitor drops into the deep winter snow without ever falling down from the actual sky?
A snow angel
A snow angel is a design made in fresh snowfall by lying on your back and waving your arms and legs back and forth. Although it shares the name of a heavenly creature, it is created directly on the ground by a person playing in the winter snow.
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