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Alaina Urquhart

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

I'd be like, why you got an extra foot?

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Yeah, why you got an extra foot?

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

So in Germany and Austria, they sometimes portray her as a witch named Frau Perchta.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

I originally said her name because it's Perchta and Perchta.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

And she basically just hands, she will hand out rewards for good kids, but she'll also hand out

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Some pretty severe punishments for bad kids, like all of these do.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

It's during the 12 days of Christmas, which is December 25th through Epiphany on January 6th.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

She's possibly best known not for her rewards that she gives, but for...

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

what she does to the bad kids.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

And what she does is if you're not awesome, she will disembowel you and replace your organs with hot garbage.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Wow.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

That's something that just sticks with you, I think.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

It sure does.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

And on the 12th, this all kind of happens on the 12th night of Christmas, which is the Feast of Epiphany.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

That's when she'll creep into homes and she'll either disembowel your ass or she'll leave a piece of silver in the shoes of children and servants who have been good.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

I take that.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Oh, and she also cuts kids' tongues with glass if they lie.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Hey, learn your rules.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Don't fuck with Frau Perchta.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Now, there is a slightly different version of this legend, and it's according to Linda Radish, which I probably said her name wrong.