In Iceland, getting new clothes for Christmas isn’t just cozy tradition, it’s protection. In this episode of Cryptid Captures, Phreak digs into the legend of Jólakötturinn, the colossal Yule Cat that stalks snowbound villages on Christmas Eve, hunting anyone who didn’t work hard enough to earn fresh wool and judging them not on morality, but productivity. From vanished fishermen and unfinished scarves to the modern fear of looking too broken for the world you live in, this is the story of a monster that doesn’t bring the cold… it just cleans up whoever the winter was going to take anyway.