Alaina Urquhart

So this is an Icelandic tradition.

He's not a nice cat.

Yule Cat will eat you.

So that's a thing.

So he's tied with an Icelandic tradition that basically says that everyone who finishes their work on time, like servants, kids, anybody, they receive new clothes for Christmas.

That's like a big thing.

The people who don't finish their work on time don't get new clothes for Christmas.

So now, as we're going to see, Yule Cat is very...

fashion forward like he's very conscious of the latest trends and he's gonna know if your ass is not wearing brand new clothes and he's gonna be pissed so to encourage children and just workers in general to work hard

Parents tell their kids that Yule Cat would be able to tell who the lazy kids were because they wouldn't have at least one item of new clothing on on Christmas.

And these kids would be sacrificed to Yule Cat.

What?

Literally.

So there's a poem written about Yule Cat, like a famous poem.

And it ends with, and this is kind of nice, at least they say it kind of ends with a suggestion that children should help out the needy by giving them new clothes so that they can have protection from being fucking devoured by Yule Cat.

Jesus.

So it's like, hey, it's a nice like charity thought, but it's also like, or a Yule Cat is going to eat you.

So the whole thing, you get new clothes, you're safe, and it meant you worked hard.

You don't have new clothes.

Yule Cat's going to eat your ass, and that's just the way it is.