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Yule cat
Artwork depicting the Yule cat
Grouping
Monster
Sub grouping
Icelandic Christmas folklore
First attested
Íslenzkar þjóðsögur og æfintýri (by Jón Árnason, 1862)
Other name(s)
Jólakötturinn
Jólaköttur
Christmas cat
Country
Iceland
The Yule cat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn, IPA:[ˈjouːlaˌkʰœhtʏrɪn], also called Jólaköttur and 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 versions of the story, the cat just eats the food of people without new clothes. Jólakötturinn is closely associated with other figures from Icelandic folklore, considered the pet of the ogress Grýla and her sons, the Yule Lads.
^Ross, Alan S. C. (1937). "Jólaköttur, Yuillis Yald and similar expressions". Saga-Book. 12: 1–18. JSTOR 48611938.
The Yulecat (Icelandic: Jólakötturinn, IPA: [ˈjouːlaˌkʰœhtʏrɪn], also called Jólaköttur and Christmas cat) is a huge and vicious cat from Icelandic Christmas...
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of Sempad the Constable to the King and Queen of Cyprus, 1243, in Henry Yule, Cathay and the Way Thither, Oxford, Hakluyt society, 1866, Vol.I, pp. cxxvii...
Jackson 1999, p. 6. Douglas-Fairhurst 2006, p. viii; A Christmas Carol, WorldCat. Kelly 2003, p. 17; Douglas-Fairhurst 2006, pp. xx, xvii. Thackeray 1844...
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