What’s worse than having a birthday during the Christmas holidays?
Date: July 31st, 2010
What’s worse than having a birthday during the Christmas holidays? If you live in Greece and your birthday falls between Christmas and New Year’s Day you are ‘feast-blasted’ which is a fancy word for predestined to become a vampire. A callicantzaros is a Greek vampire who tears his victims apart with long fingernails. He can only indulge in his vampire ways during the twelve days of Christmas. Children born during this time are looked upon with fear because they are likely to become creatures who roam the darkness and plague other children unfortunate enough to be born at Christmastime. When American Christmas babies complain that one gift has to do double duty because their birthday is too close to Christmas, make sure to remind them that the consequences of such an untimely birth could be far worse.
