Beware The Kallikantzaroi
General • December 2008 • Views: 450
As the Greeks tell it, it wouldn’t be hard to confuse the Twelve Days of Christmas with the Twelve Days of Hell. That is if you believe in the Kallikantzaroi.
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Christmas in Greece looks a little different.
These mythical, goblin-like spirits are said to pop up between Christ’s birthday and Epiphany on Jan. 6, days they devote to wreaking their unique brand of havoc. John Tomkinson, the Athens-based author of “Haunted Greece: Nymphs, Vampires, and other Exotica” compares their behavior to “…drunken yobs coming out of a pub.”