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When Christmas Used to Be Dangerous: Ancient Rituals & Forgotten Demons

🎄 Christmas Used to Be Darker Than You Think Christmas today feels cosy, cheerful, and familiar — but for centuries, the midwinter season was anything but gentle. Before Santa Claus, Christmas was a time of chaos, judgement, ghosts, demons, and ancient ritual. In this video, we uncover the forgotten and bizarre traditions that once defined Christmas across Britain and Europe — traditions that modern celebrations have quietly buried. From Roman Saturnalia and medieval Lords of Misrule, to masked guisers demanding food and ale, eerie hobby horses knocking at doors, Christmas demons punishing the naughty, and resurrection plays performed in village kitchens — this is the darker, stranger history of Christmas that few people realise ever existed. We’ll explore: 🎭 Saturnalia & the Lord of Misrule — when social order collapsed on purpose 🐐 Krampus, Perchta & Christmas demons who stalked the winter nights 🐎 Mari Lwyd, Wales’ haunting Christmas horse and its battle of verse ⚔️ Mummers’ plays — sword fights, death, and magical resurrection 🍎 Wassailing & guising, where hospitality was demanded… or else 👻 Christmas Eve magic, ghost stories, talking animals, and fortune-telling rites Long before Christmas became polite and sentimental, it was a threshold — a dangerous, enchanted moment when the world turned upside-down and the boundary between the living and the dead grew thin. Welcome back, Darklings. This is the Christmas you were never taught about.