Christmas should be a time of love, joy, and giving, not a time of fear. But for those affected with certain phobias, Christmas is a time of unease and terror.
In what country do they eat KFC fried chicken for Christmas dinner? How would you like to be visited by a hooded horse with a skeletal head on Christmas? And then, no matter how much I don’t like them, we have spiders.
Christmas is a very special time of year. The giving of gifts and showing love for others is in the air. It is when we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior. It is also the time of year we watch ๐โ๐ ๐บ๐๐๐๐โ and ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐๐โ ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐-๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. But some suffer from Christmas/winter phobias that make this joyful season into one of terror for them.
In Iceland at Christmas, a giant black cat, Jรณlakรถtturinn, The Yule Cat, roams the countryside and devours anyone who isnโt wearing new clothing.
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Do other people consider your Christmas traditions to be unusual? Weird? Strange?
Is there a Christmas pickle on your Christmas tree?
What does the sparkly glitter that covers a lot of Christmas cards and various arts-and-crafts projects have in common with kudzu, an invasive ornamental plant? We can thank Henry Ruschmann, a New Jersey cattle rancher, for the invention of glitter in 1934. When not working his ranch, he dabbled as a machinist and discovered a…
What does an eight-legged creepy crawly have to do with Christmas? In Australia, a country famous for its deadly spiders, a Christmas spider really does exist. This timid spider is harmless to humans, but its unusual appearance does tend to frighten. Why is the oddly shaped arachnid called a Christmas spider? There are several species…
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