The Pagan roots of Christmas - Yule and Saturnalia
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The Sinister Element of Father Christmas
Father christmas was not santa clause the two things are separate figures. He did put coal in your in your give you coal if you've been bad you've got given coal but in scand... i mean sorry in the alpine countries the crampus gives them a beating and scares them. The wild hunt traditions of the wild hunt aren't from pagan times they come from more recent times when oden was seen as more of a monstrous figure almost like a devil. It's an art like an army of undead or like you know dead or the spirits of dead warriors who could catch someone out and take them up with them.
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