{"id":181632,"date":"2025-12-23T07:49:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/have-yourself-a-freaky-christmas-the-strangest-european-folklore-explained-2\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T07:49:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:49:02","slug":"have-yourself-a-freaky-christmas-the-strangest-european-folklore-explained-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/12\/23\/have-yourself-a-freaky-christmas-the-strangest-european-folklore-explained-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Have yourself a freaky Christmas: The strangest European folklore explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While you\u2019re overindulging in the festive cheer and the rampant commercial takeover of these holidays, keep these strange Christmas folklore figures in mind. Whether it\u2019s the anti-Santa cat from Iceland or a child-chopping murderer from France, there\u2019s plenty that\u2019s bleak around the holidays.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2025\/12\/23\/have-yourself-a-freaky-christmas-the-strangest-european-figures-explained\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While you\u2019re overindulging in the festive cheer and the rampant commercial takeover of these holidays, keep these strange Christmas folklore figures in mind. Whether it\u2019s the anti-Santa cat from Iceland or a child-chopping murderer from France, there\u2019s plenty that\u2019s bleak around the holidays. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":64297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}