Lesser-Known Christmas Folklore Characters

So that cat 100% just exists so that kids won’t complain about getting clothes instead of toys right?

" If you find yourself rap battling a horse skull in South Wales, it's normal I guess"

- Sam O'nella

Fun fact: Candle Stealer also eats the candles he steals

He missed the part in iceland where the Icelandic kids leave their shoe in the window, for the yule lads to give gifts for the nice kids, and potatoes for the missbehaving ones. I remember waking up, checking the window and lurking out to throw the potatoe befor my parenta found out, and seeing my sister (who i had fought with) doing the same

You can just hear Sam keep his laughter when talking about the 13 shitmakers

The Yule lads just sound like any college aged roommates

I think it's an honorable mention that in Hungary, it's not Santa who brings the presents but Jesus himself

"...and there's Candle-Stealer who... you get the idea."

Me: "Um, eats kids?"

"Thirteen yule lads" [shows twelve yule lads]

Oh god one of them's under my bed now

I love the fact that you can hear his voice breaking up while trying to hold in his laughs while explaining the Yule lads

someone needs to write a horror story about trying to stay alive during christmas while a bunch of little comedically named elves do random shit in your house. like, super high tension, but no actual danger. i would love that.

4:10 They're real. You just can't see them because you haven't signed the paperwork

pls dont kick your legs like that ever again- im frightened

Ah I remember the joys of being young on Christmas staying up all night waiting for the doorway sniffer to arrive 😌

Having been brought up with German childrens' books, I can tell you that while they may not be intentionally terrifying, a child's mind is quite adept at imaging the most gruesome possible outcome to every situation.
For example:
Hans Guckindieluft.
Roughly, Hans Head-In-The-Air.
The story goes, he lives in a harbor town, and is always - you guessed it - looking up at the sky, and never where he's going.
Naturally, one day on his way to school, he isn't looking where he's going and trips. Not just anyplace, either - over the edge of the seawall into the harbor. The story ends with a colorfully illustrated picture of him falling in the water while the fish scatter.
Except... here's where the catch comes in. I had just done a school project on piranhas, which - and this fact sprang to my mind's forefront as I saw that illustration - a small school of piranhas can strip a fully grown cow down to its skeleton in under five minutes.
I had even made a (rather good) sculpture of a piranha, with box cutter blades for teeth. They were very sharp.

Safe to say, since I live in a city near to an ocean, that for my entire life I have never once looked up at the sky while walking.
Problem solved...?

As an Icelander, I thank you for presenting our Yule Lads probably better than anyone else.
However, you did forget the tradition where we put our shoes on the windowsill, so that we get gifts from each of the Yule Lads.

I love how when you were talking about the Yule Lads, you can hear Sam almost losing it

This man just made a Chinese president joke before it was cool

nearly 5 years later and the presentation of Doorway Sniffer still gets me so good

The fact that Sam was on the verge of losing it throughout the entire Yule Lads section makes it 100x funnier