Alaina Urquhart

So just straight up garbage for bad kids.

Here's some rotten garbage.

Enjoy.

But I guess it's way better than being eaten or beaten or disemboweled.

So kids are like, that's fine.

I'll take it.

I'll take these rotten potatoes.

So apparently the Yule Lads used to be way creepier than they are today.

But in 1746...

Parents were officially banned from actually using Yule Lads to scare their kids.

Well, and I guess in this whole, like, banning of the Yule Lads and everything, they also banned, like, using Krampus to scare your kids, using any of these.

Because, like, they were legit using, like, you're going to get eaten.

And kids were scared to go outside during the Christmas time because they were scared they were going to get eaten or disemboweled or beaten or taken away and drowned, like,

What a different time of year than we have.

What a time to be alive.

So the National Museum of Iceland has a list of the 13 Yule Lads and their names and what they do.

And I'm going to read this off to you because it's pretty great.

Oh, God.

Some of these are amazing.

So the first Yule Lad is called...