What's up top 10 fam hope you’re having an awesome day, Im your host Ayman Hasan and
welcome back to another video.
Woohoo I love the holiday season, whether you celebrate christmas or hanukkah or nothing
at all, i feel like everyone is just happier in december.
And we like happy people dont we.
Let's turn those smiles into tears now though because these are the Top 10 Scary Holiday
Myths.
Starting us off with number 10 is Frau Perchta (pearkh-ta).
Now this one is an eastern european legend and honestly if youre well behaved or on the
nice list you have nothing to worry about.
But lets be real we’re all a bit naughty arent we?
On the Feast of Epiphany which celebrates the revelation of god as jesus, Perchta sneaks
into the homes of kids and if theyre good they get a coin in their shoe but if theyre
bad, she slices open their stomachs, takes out their internal organs and then puts in
straw and pebbles instead.
Sometimes she looks like a young woman wearing a white dress and in other stories shes an
old hag.
Either way shes a shapeshifter and im not here to get my stomach sliced open cus i have
def been naughty this year.
Coming in at number 9 is Joulupukki (yaw-la-pookeh) aka the christmas buck or christmas goat.
This finnish myth terrified kids growing up because i mean just the look of it is bad
enough.
Said to have demonic looking horns and hooves, the buck goes around in tight leather pants
and a fur trimmed red leather coat.
Kinda sounds like the villain him from the powerpuff girls.
Around christmas time it goes around finding naughty kids so it can beat them to death
which i mean is a bit much.
Like what if im naughty this year but nice next year?
Like gimme a chance.
At number 8 we have Krampus (krumpuss).
I feel like this is the most famous one on the list, we’ve all heard of this german
half goat half demon monster equipped with fangs and a pointed tongue.
His name literally translates to claw and hes one of santas right hand men.
Legend has it that he beats and abducts all the naughty kids during christmas.
He literally just swoops into your house, stuffs you into his burlap sack and then eats
you at his house or lair.
I feel like villains always live in lairs so im guessing its a lair.
Hes usually depicted carrying birch branches, bells and chains so he has the option of which
weapon he wants to use on you cus who doesnt like being spoilt for choice.
Filling our number 7 slot is The Tomten.
This little gnome is part of Scandinavian folklore, and honestly he looks quite cute
but hes not.
Sweet but a psycho yknow kinda like me.
This christmas monster is very easily offended and if he finds a naughty kid he does one
of 4 things.
He either beats you half to death, kills your livestock, drives you insane or kills you
with his poisonous bite.
Now at number 6 is Belsnickel.
Now the tale of Belsnickel originated in the Rhineland area of German back in the 18th
century.
Hes a companion of St. Nicholas who is essentially father christmas and hes 100% not a nice guy.
Confirmed.
Lookswise hes this dirty old man that wears raggedly clothes made of pelts and skin which
is already problematic in and of itself.
He carries a switch to beat kids that misbehave and is essentially a creepy anti santa.
Its like a good cop bad cop scenario.
On one side you get presents and on the other side you get beat.
Coming in at number 5 is Xmas.
Now i dont say xmas in real life but i always abbreviate christmas to xmas on text and stuff
cus hello efficiency and less letters to type.
Well did you guys know that saying xmas is actually very sacrilegious.
I did not know that.
Apparently back in the day the more religious Christians thought removing christ himself
out of the word was unforgivable.
Xmas was looked at as a more secular term rather than a christian one.
But if we look at the history of the world, the word christ in greek starts with X but
its pronounced chi.
So really its actually a logical nickname and everyones just a hater.
At number 4 are Kallikantzaros (kaalee-kan-zaros).
These Greek goblins are talked about in Turkish, Siberian, Bulgarian and Greek folklore and
theyre meant to live underground.
Legend has it they spend their whole lives sawing down the world tree which would result
in the world ending.
Merry christmas.
Either way they always get close to sawing it down completely around christmas time so
they take a break and go above ground to terrorize humans.
Because i guess we deserve it.
But when they go back underground, they realise the world tree has somehow healed itself and
then they spend the next year trying to saw it down again.
Its said that kids born during the 12 days of christmas are at risk at transforming into
these goblins.
Filling our number 3 slot is Gryla (greela).
This is an icelandic legend involving a giantess that lives in the mountains and essentially
only comes out during winter to hunt down naughty kids.
If she does manage to get her hands on one, she boils them into a stew and literally eats
them.
Gryla started becoming associated with christmas back in the 17th century and kids became so
scared of her that the Icelandic government actually had to ban parents from using her
legend as a parenting technique.
And if shes not bad enough, Grylas also the mother of the 13th Yule Lads which we’ll
just get into.
Now at number 2 are The Yule Lads.
Lads lads lads.
Sorry that was my inner british banter coming out.
Either way the Yule Lads are the 13 sons of Gryla and Leppaludi and theyre literally a
bunch of evil pranksters.
They harass the whole population and each of them have a specific name that goes along
with the things they do.
Names like Meat Hook, Gully Gawk and Window Peeper so i mean you can well imagine what
those three do.
They come to town one by one on the 13 nights leading up to christmas and torture naughty
children and i mean 1 vs 13.
The odds are clearly not in your favour.
And finally at number 1 is Pere Fouettard (pere fwey-targg).
This french legend translates to Father Whipper or Old Man Whipper which i mean already we’re
off to a bad start.
So Fouettard is Santa’s right hand evil man.
Legend has it he used to be a butcher that craved eating children so he decided to do
it.
Him or his wife lured 3 kids to his butcher shop somehow and killed them, chopped them
up and seasoned them with salt of course and then eat them.
Santa came to the rescue and resurrected the boys cus he can apparently do that and took
Fouettard captive and made him his servant.
And now his job is to punish bad kids on christmas by spanking the shit out of them and slaughtering
them into one of his stews.
And thats it for todays video guys!
Halloween isnt the scariest holiday of the year evidently, christmas is pretty spooky
too.
Who knew?
Well us after this video.
Lemme know what you guys thought in the comments below and as always im your host ayman hasan
and ill catch you
in
the next one.
Byee.