CALL THE NEIGHBORS, WAKE THE KIDS, HERE'S A LITTLE STORY FOR EVERYONE, THE SCARY PART OF CHRISTMAS!!
Just lurking in the shadows of the neighbor's twinkling Christmas lawn lights is the darker side of the Yule tide. One rarely associates the holiday season with the ghouls and specters that cavort during Halloween, but in many traditions around the world Christmas does have a dark side. Aside from the specters in Dickens's A Christmas Carol , the threat of a lump of coal from Santa, and Chevy Chase's Holiday Vacation ; American traditions have been insulated from the horror show of Christmas traditions around the world. Here are just some of stories of Christmas evil that will make you glad that shipping Aunt Tillie's sweater is high on your list of holiday stressors. A Tender Norwegian Christmas Besides eating lye treated cod during the Holiday season, the Norwegians have a number of frightful Christmas traditions. The foremost of these traditions being Julebukk the Christmas goat. Traditions c...