#256 Christmas Goblins Ride You Like a Cowboy - Kallikantzaros

But It Was Aliens

The extraterrestrial comedy podcast where we probe our most mischievous but kind of pointless festive trouble-makers yet, the Christmas Goblins. Known in ancient antiquity such as ancient greek culture as Kallikantzaros, these things have been rodeo’ing strangers and weeing on flowerbeds in between trying to cause the end of the world. For millennia. But can we find any evidence of their existence? What if we told you that we can? Allegedly. Truthfully. If you were born on one of the twelve days of Christmas, you just might turn in to one of these creatures. Unless someone singed your toes as a baby… All that and more on this week’s episode (released two days earlier than usual - Happy Christmas probers).

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Music created via Garageband. Additional music via: https://freepd.com - thank you most kindly good people. We closed out the episode with the ’Staff Roll’ aka credits theme from Nintendo’s 1990-1992 Super Mario World from the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, composed by Hero of Sound Kōji Kondō.

Sources:

Archaeology dot com: https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2016/04/01/the-goblins-kαλικάντζαροι-of-the-twelve-days-of-christmas/

Argophilia: https://www.argophilia.com/news/kallikantzaroi-greek-christmas-goblins/232499/amp/

Hannah Fielding: https://hannahfielding.net/goblins-of-greek-folklore/

Boxing Day Wrecking Spree of 2020 via Edinburgh News: https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/disgusting-boxing-day-vandals-went-on-vehicle-wrecking-spree-in-musselburgh-3079519

The Five Bus Stop Spree of Moorthorpe via Wakefield Express: https://www.wakefieldexpress.co.uk/news/five-bus-stops-on-single-road-mindlessly-vandalised-in-boxing-day-rampage-176184