Christmas Cat
As a part of the annual tradition the Christmas Cat arrives to the town square at the beginning of the Advent.
The Yule Cat is a huge and vicious cat who is described as lurking about the snowy landscape during Christmas time and eating people who haven't received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve.
The threat of being eaten by the Yule Cat was used by farmers as an incentive for their workers to finish processing the autumn wool before Christmas. The ones who took part in the work would be rewarded with new clothes, but those who did not would get nothing and thus would be preyed upon by the monstrous cat. The cat has alternatively been described as merely eating away the food of ones without new clothes during Christmas feast. Photo: Ragnar Hólm