A. Sutherland – AncientPages.com – The Kallikantzaroi are naughty and generally evil underground goblins who emerge in the course of the 12 days of Christmas after which disappear into the Earth on the eve of the Epiphany.
Within the folklore of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey, and Bosnia, they’re accountable for many unhealthy issues that occur to folks in the course of the Christmas time between Christ’s birthday and Epiphany on January 6.
These creatures don’t include Christmas presents. As an alternative, they seem to hassle folks as a result of these demonic spirits are mischievous, tough, and even harmful. The Greeks say complicated the Twelve Days of Christmas with the Twelve Days of Hell would not be exhausting.
Nobody ever is ready for the Kallikantzaroi’s coming, however they at all times come.
“Of all supernatural Christmas guests, essentially the most vividly realized and believed in at present day are in all probability the Greek Kallikantzaroi or Karkantzaroi. They’re the fear of the Greek peasant in the course of the Twelve Days; within the soil of his creativeness, they flourish luxuriantly, and to him [peasant], they’re a really actual and residing nuisance,” Clement A. Miles writes in his e-book Christmas in Ritual and Custom, Christian and Pagan.
Folks imagine that they often seem when darkness falls. Due to this fact, they attempt to use Christian precautions to guard themselves by staying indoors, scratching a cross on their doorways on Christmas Eve, burning incense, or leaving the hearth lit all night time to scare the goblins away.
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