Spirit of the Day: #3 Kallikantzaroi Kallikantzaroi are a kind of Goblin from Greece and surrounding lands. They appear during the twelfths of Yuletide and wreak havoc and mischief. They do this after they arise from underground where they have spent the rest of the year cutting down the tree of life. It is said to distract them leave out a colander as they will try to count the holes rather than make mischief. While they are often depicted as chimeric beings with animal parts and often an immense phallus, their name actually translates to "Beautiful Centaur" and some have theorized they began as a kind of Wolf Centaur or Spirit used for animistic tasks. One depiction of them looks just like humans but smell terrible, a common trait of the Kallikantzaroi. On the 6th (Epiphany) they return underground to discover the Tree of Life has regrown.