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The Yule cat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn, IPA: [ˈjouːlaˌkʰœhtʏrɪn], also called Jólaköttur and the Christmas cat [1]) is a huge and vicious cat from Icelandic Christmas folklore that is said to lurk in the snowy countryside during the Christmas season and eat people who do not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve. In other ...
Grýla and Skyrgámur (a Yule Lad fond of skyr) depicted in a sculpture at Keflavík International Airport. Icelandic Christmas folklore depicts mountain-dwelling characters and monsters who come to town during Christmas. The stories are directed at children and are used to scare them into good behavior.
Grýla is closely associated with Christmas folklore in younger traditions. [2] The oldest extant source connecting Grýla with Christmas is a poem that was likely co-composed by the Rev. Guðmundur Erlendsson of Fell in Sléttuhlíð and his brother-in-law Ásgrímur Magnússon, who was a farmer and rímur-poet.
Creatures in Norse mythology (7 C, 19 P) T. Trolls (3 C, 9 P) ... Yule cat; Yule goat; Yule Lads This page was last edited on 5 October 2018, at 21:18 (UTC) ...
Pages in category "Folklore creatures" ... Yule cat This page was last edited on 29 June 2024, at 11:51 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Pages in category "Icelandic folklore" ... Yule cat; Yule Lads This page was last edited on 10 September 2023, at 18:15 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
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Cat-sìth (Celtic mythology) – spectral cat that haunts the Scottish Highlands; Cath Palug – a monstrous cat said to have killed 180 warriors; Carbuncle – one of its many descriptions is a cat with a luminescent chin [4]