"On this Christmas morning, might there be some butter and cream for the Cap'n?"
"On this Christmas morning, might there be some butter and cream for the Cap'n?"
The Yule Cat is a huge cat in Icelandic folklore that eats people who did not receive new clothing before Christmas Eve. The cat incentivized farmworkers to finish processing the wool they collected before Christmas, since they were rewarded with new clothes.
🎨 Marina Vereshchagina
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As the days get colder & the nights get longer here in the northern hemisphere, folktales are full of the eerie, the creepy, the supernatural & the slightly sinister Yuletide characters. I have an ongoing collection of linocut prints (and holiday cards!) full of festive characters like the Yule Cat who eats naughty children who are too lazy so they don’t get new clothes at Christmas;
https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1112430423
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