Straggle
During the Yule season from December and into January, across much of Europe, it's a dark and sinister season. It isn't full of the benign magical and friendly elves, tree fairies, reindeer and jolly Santa. There are countries with creepier figures that appear over the holiday and they're a lot nastier than other creepy Christmas character I've posted about. Imagine the evil White Witch from "Chronicles of Narnia" but dwells here on this world. Also imagine La Befana ten times scarier and has a horde of monsters.
Straggle are Christmas monsters. They are big, horned and very snarly, almost half animal but not human at all. These monsters called Straggle punish children for being badly behaved. What they do is steal their belongings and kill them. The Straggle are also called Perchta's little helpers but they're no elves. Perchta is a beautiful goddess although in folklore she's regarded as Frau Perchta or Berchta the witch. She resembles an old woman in part of the lore but looks like a young beautiful woman in another section. They also call her Holda or Mother Holle. Described as having a large food like that of a swan, or a goose.
Perchta checked in on every house to make sure that children were well behaved. She would do this between Christmas and Epiphany. She was interested in finding out if people worked hard, so that she would reward them with silver coins. If anyone didn't work hard and if any child was bad, Perchta would mutilate them and fill their bodies with straw and stones. The church was unhappy that people were liking the celebration and custom of Perchta and her dangerous Straggle gang.
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She Wolf Night team
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