Alaina Urquhart
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Yeah, it's just the way it is.
So I'm not going to judge her for that.
Out of 72, you're going to get a murderer or two.
Now, the Yule Cat, like I said, lives with this whole clan.
So she's the mother of these 72 kids.
She's the mother of the 13 Yule Lads.
And their house pet is the Yule Cat.
She was first said to send her 13 Yule Lads down to town to snatch up bad kids so they could cook and eat them.
But again, by 1746, Icelandic kids were so scared of this that the government stepped in and put the ban on using this lady to scare kids too.
So she was part of this whole thing, like, you can't do this.
Now later it changed again.
Because of this whole thing.
And now she's said to send her 13 boys, her Yule lads, down to town during the 13 days of Christmas where they just spread cheer and are just mischievous and shit.
You know, just stealing your meat, stealing your candles, slamming your doors, not eating you or murdering you.
Now, just to end this, the onion, so apparently she's like a huge, like people know who this ogress is.
So the onion blamed her for the 2010 eruption of the, I'm going to try to say this volcano, but it's the Ajaf Jala Jokul volcano.