VB 'Vile Boris' our departed cat was one but we did not mention it.
Ps some nice pictures of Yule cat on google images
P video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj6skZAHfQE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeHunHocp5Q
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Subject: yule cat
BBC radio 3 is doing Euro carols, and one is about the yule cat new to me
sounds cruel…?
The Yule Cat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn or Jólaköttur) is a monster from
Icelandic folklore, a huge and vicious catsaid to lurk about the snowy
countryside during Christmastime and eat people who have not received any
newclothes to wear before Christmas Eve. [1] The Yule Cat has become
associated with other figures from Icelandic folklore as the house pet of
the giantess Grýla and her sons, the Yule Lads. [2] The threat of being
eaten by the Yule Cat was used by farmers as an incentive for their workers
to finish processing the autumn wool before Christmas. The ones who took
part in the work would be rewarded with new clothes, but those who did not
would get nothing and thus would be preyed upon by the monstrous cat. The
cat has alternatively been interpreted as merely eating away the food of
ones without new clothes during Christmas feasts. [1] The perception of the
Yule Cat as a man-eating beast was partly popularized by the poet Jóhannes
úr Kötlum in his poem Jólakötturinn.=
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