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Alaina Urquhart

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756 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

And what I'm doing is I'm going to connect them to the last person I'm talking about because the last person I'm talking about is their mother.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Okay.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Yeah, these dudes have a mother.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Her name is Grylia and she's their mama.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

She actually predates them in Icelandic legend as an ogress who kidnaps, cooks, and eats children that don't obey their parents.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

So she originally was just used like, hey, obey your parents all the time or she's going to come down anytime during the year and just take you and cook you and eat you.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

But she became associated with Christmas in the 17th century because they had the Yule Lads and they were like, the Yule Lads need a mom.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

So they just associated her with them.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

I love that.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Yeah, they were like, they need a mama.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

So according to the legend...

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

gree i'm not saying her name right grila or grelia had three different husbands get it girl and she had 72 children now when we talked about the lawson family and they had eight kids we were like one might say that's too many 72 children is far too many

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

72, that's a problem.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Girl, even the Duggars stopped before that.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

They did.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Did they?

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Or are they still on their way?

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

I think they're trying to get there.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Now, all these 72 children ranged from just being kind of mischievous to just straight up murdering people.

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Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers

Which, if you have 72 kids, there are bound to be a few hooligans and murderers among you.