This week starts with a prank exposed. We then talk about the creepiness of AI on social media and delivery drivers that don't just knock and leave.
Our main topic is about what Carly dubs the "holiday chaos crew". We have the Yule Lads in Iceland and the Kallikantzaroi in Greece. From licking spoons, to sniffing kitchens, to snatching weiners, to chopping down the tree of life... these guys are a menace to the new year all over Europe. We also chat about the Yule Cat eating naked children.
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CREDITS:
Iceland / Yule Lads & related folklore
- Overview of Icelandic Christmas folklore (Yule Lads, shoe gifts, canonization via Jóhannes úr Kötlum’s 1932 poem): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Christmas_folklore
- Background explainer referencing Jóhannes úr Kötlum’s poems and the lads’ popularization: https://understandiceland.is/icelandic-yule-lads/
- National Museum of Iceland event page referencing the 13 lads appearing one-by-one (modern cultural practice): https://www.thjodminjasafn.is/vidburdir/jolasveinarnir-heimsaekja-safnid
- Academic work on Grýla traditions (Terry Gunnell PDF): https://sagaconference.org/SC09/SC09_Gunnell.pdf
- Yule Cat overview and references to early attestation / later popularization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_cat
Greece / Kallikantzaroi (Killikantzaros)
Overview of Kallikantzaros/Kallikantzaroi, Twelve Days timing, world-tree motif, household defenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kallikantzaros
John Cuthbert Lawson, Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion (1910) — public-domain text via Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/66116/66116-h/66116-h.htm