Kallikantzaros

The Kallikantzaros are bad winter goblins from Greek folklore. They spend most of the year living deep inside the earth, and they emerge during winter. When they appear, its often believed to be during Winter Solstice, while the season is darkest. Once they emerge from underground, trouble starts! They will hang around on the surface until the sixth of January, or at Epiphany as the days gradually get longer. While they're out and about, they cause many types of damage and mischief. It's believed that while they're spending the rest of the year underground, they're not asleep at all, but trying to cut the roots of the World Tree that keeps everything together using a great big saw. They're described as nocturnal dark shadowy looking creatures with long tails. It's said that they're blind, and they eat small animals like worms, frogs and slugs. The Kallikantzaros speak with a lisp, although they fear fire, holy water and sunlight. They can spread havoc wherever they go. Able to pass down chimneys, they can also find a way to enter locked houses by just sliding into cracks, under doors, windows and squeezing through keyholes. They enjoy stealing food, making a mess, noisy and breaking things. Regarded as stupid and unable to count, so people use this to protect themselves from the Kallikantzaros. 

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