We have recently posted about some of the more obscure Christmas characters. Of course, most of those were either human or humanoid (in the case of elves) figures, but there’s another subset of Christmas characters that we have yet to tackle, and those are the holiday beasts or Christmas creatures.
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Leah Schnelbach of TOR makes a list of all the Christmas creatures she could find, and ranks them based on her subjective judgment. She does have a few caveats about the creatures on her list: they are not mythological and by no means does she imply that they aren’t real.
Needless to say, the one to top the list would be everybody’s favorite reindeer, Rudolph. And who wouldn’t have the red-nosed reindeer as their favorite Christmas creature? He’s so lovable that he not only has one but two animated features, the one from Rankin-Bass, and the one by Max Fleischer.
Other creatures on the list include the Abominable Snowbeast from the 1964 stop motion Rudolph film, Krampus, and the lioness Shiegra from The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus. Check out the rest of the list on TOR.
(Image credit: Rankin-Bass/Wikimedia Commons)
Source: neatorama