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- proper noun In
Greek andCypriot culture, a traditionalYuletide gift -bearing character, resembling agoblin .
Etymologies
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From Greek καλλικάντζαρος.
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_Kallikantzaros_ itself has been conjecturally derived by Bernhard
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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This view is | 246 | taken by Allatius, who says that a Kallikantzaros has all the characteristics of nightmare, rampaging abroad and jumping on men's shoulders, then leaving them half senseless on the ground. "{
Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles
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