{"id":255,"date":"2009-12-15T11:06:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gargoyle:8011\/?p=255"},"modified":"2010-07-14T13:09:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T17:09:21","slug":"christmas-countdownday-15yule-lads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/?p=255","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown….Day 15…Yule Lads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of our favorite Christmas traditions is the Yule Lads.\u00a0 Christopher and I went to Iceland seven years ago.\u00a0 There we learned about the Yule lads and we have been participating in the tradition ever since!\u00a0 The Yule lads come down from the mountains during the last 13 nights before Christmas.\u00a0 Children leave a shoe in their window each night.\u00a0 The Yule lads sneak into each house and play a prank on the inhabitants before leaving a little treat for the children.\u00a0 Children who are not good, receive rotten potatoes in their shoes.<\/p>\n

Each Yule lad is unique and carries its own traditions.\u00a0 Such as St\u00fafur, <\/em>or Stubby, who is very short,<\/em> therefore it is important to put a stool by your window so he can reach your shoe.\u00a0 A favorite in our house is Hur\u00f0askellir<\/em>, or Door Slammer, who is very noisy and slams all the doors in the house before he goes on his way!<\/p>\n

Eventually, all the Yule Lads arrive and then make their way back to the mountains.\u00a0 On Christmas eve, children who do not receive new clothing, are in danger of being eaten by the Yule Cat!\u00a0 This tradition originated from the fact that Icelandic children were responsible for helping out with the preparation and production of new garments each winter.\u00a0 To make sure the children worked hard and concentrated while working, the adults would scare them with horrific tales of the Yule Cat!<\/p>\n

You can read more about the traditions of Iceland and the Yule lads at this Iceland website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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One of our favorite Christmas traditions is the Yule Lads.\u00a0 Christopher and I went to Iceland seven years ago.\u00a0 There we learned about the Yule lads and we have been participating in the tradition ever since!\u00a0 The Yule lads come down from the mountains during the last 13 nights before Christmas.\u00a0 Children leave a shoe … Continue reading “Christmas Countdown….Day 15…Yule Lads”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-traditions"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p172S4-47","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catchick6creations.interiority.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}