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I hope you got everything you wanted this year. Say, what's that over there behind the desk? One more present: My 2023 Krampus comics.
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Yule Lads
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Another two xmas themed moths, made as customs for FrekiTheGreedy on Twt
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Merry Christmas (with Yule cat)
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Yule Cat 😺
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ZUUUUULLLL !
Wait, oops I mean YULE! Get it, because itsa yule cat? You know, the giant cat that'll eat ya when you're out alone(up to no good) on Christmas eve?
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Old Icelandic tradition - Another interpretation says: The Yule Cat is a huge and vicious cat who lurks about the snowy countryside during Christmas time and eats people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve. So, either way, you’re screwed.
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When Krampus treads too far into Yule Cat’s territory
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Hellboy Winter Special: The Yule Cat
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The massive scary Yule Cat from Icelandic Mythology has always amused me. I may have to write a One-Shot adventure for it some day. Homebrew monster stat-ed by Star Sail Games
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It's a giant cat. Maybe it's friendly...
Today I learned that in Icelandic folklore there is this huge cat called Jólakötturinn that eats people who don't get any new clothing before Christmas. I love it.
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A little yule cat coming in for a visit
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Yuletide Greetings from the icelandic Yule Cat! 🎄🌟
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the yule cat
For most of us with cats, the worst thing we worry about come Christmastime is keeping them from utterly trashing our Christmas trees.
Iceland however has a whole other thing to be worried about when it comes to cats and Christmas.
To quote the title of an article by Danny Lewis in the Smithsonian Magazine (because it is far too perfect to not):
Each Christmas, Iceland’s Yule Cat Takes Fashion Policing to the Extreme
So, what is the Yule Cat and why is he in critiquing Iceland's Christmas clothes?
Freyja's cats aren't the only felines in town. The Yule Cat, the Jólakötturinn, also known as the Christmas Cat, is a gigantic cat the size of a house that roams the darkness of Iceland in the nights leading up to Christmas eve, peering with glowing eyes in through windows. What is he looking for? The Yule Cat is checking everyone's Christmas presents. Not for cans of tuna or kitty snacks. Oh no, the Yule Cat is looking to see who hasn't gotten any new clothes wrapped up and waiting for them.
No new clothes?
The Yule Cat will hunt the unfortunate victim down and tear them apart before eating them. (in other, gentler tales, he simple eats their Christmas 'portion' of dinner)
Still, seems a bit extreme a response to grandma forgetting to knit you yet another one of those hats with the pom-poms on top, doesn't it?
Still, that's the deal. Adults and children alike better be grateful for those packs of new underwear under the tree. Those socks are going to do more than keep their feet warm - those socks are going to save their life!
So, we've got to ask ourselves - why would new clothes be so important that folklore would come up with a monster enforcing them? Is it all a ploy just to make sure Johannes is grateful when he gets that ugly sweater instead of the toy train he was gunning for when he unwraps his presents?
Well, like most things in folklore, if you go back far enough, things get blurry. The first written mention we have of the Yule Cat is in a collection of folklore gathered by Jon Árnason in 1862. In it, the Yule Cat gets exactly one paragraph and a footnote. The footnote is the important part. It mentions a colloquial phrase of the time: "to dress the cat". 'To dress the cat' means to wear the same clothes over and over again, the idea being that cats don't change their 'clothes'.
There was also a tradition that household servants and farm workers that helped turn the season's wool into yarn would receive new clothes as a reward for their work. Those who didn't - didn't get new clothes. You can see how the Yule Cat would come in handy as motivation in this case. It also worked as a motivator for children to finish their chores in the same way, with good children getting rewarded with clothes and bad children being left as fair game for the Cat.
In 1932, Jóhannes úr Kötlum published a collection of poems centered around Christmas and one of his poems featured the Yule Cat. The Yule Cat's popularity soared and the monster soon found itself lumped in together with other Christmastime monsters from the book, becoming the pet of the evil troll, Gryla and ridden by one of her mischievous Yule Lad sons, tiny Stufur.
But wait - let's go back a bit further before we wrap this up. Because there's been some speculation that the Christmas Cat isn't just about new clothes. We need to go back, back to early St. Nick stories, when it wasn't so much Santa and his elves and reindeer. When St. Nick was, as so many winter myths are, only part of the story. Because you can't have good without evil, generosity without greed or light without darkness. Santa Claus doesn't come without Krampus in his shadow. Reward doesn't come without the threat of punishment. Krampus is only one Christmas monster but almost every region had their own version of a dark something lurking in Santa's footsteps. Perhaps, so the theory goes, the Yule Cat was once just such a creature, back when stories were still new at Christmas time and winters crept long and cold in the nights of the snow covered lands. For every saint, there must be a devil.
Which brings us to today. Because there are no stories about the Yule Cat skipping a meal because the child's parents were too poor to afford to buy new clothes.
Maybe the best way we can celebrate the Yule Cat stories today is by making sure no children ever have to think of him as anything more than a shadow that peers in their window - and then passes by.
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Happy Yule, everyone! I hope the Yule Cat doesn't get you!
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