Exploring Weird Christmas Creatures & Figures: Christmas Myths and Legends

Folks, thank you for stopping by our 2025 Christmas Special. Today, I just wanted to talk to you a bit about some of the many crazy Christmas-related or Christmas-adjacent figures the world across - dare I say, this is a Christmas Cryptids video? Either way - thank you so much for stopping by - and I hope that you have yourself a very merry Christmas and holiday season.

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00:00- Intro
01:10- Icelandic Christmas Figures
10:48- Father Whipper
15:04- The Yule Goat
19:33- The Nisse
24:13- Interesting alternatives to Santa in Catalonia
27:01- Mari Lwyd
32:30- Closing

Thumbnail credits:
By Seppo Laine; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 17:43, 9 December 2016 (UTC) - Flickr: julbock_gavle_christmasgoat, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By R. fiend - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Andrii Gladii - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
By Lidine Mia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

Music Credits:
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Angels We Have Heard by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Jingle Bells Calm by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Bethlehem - Christmas by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Lightless Dawn Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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Intro music: Credit: "Cattle Drive: https://www.purple-planet.com"