Iceland, Yule Cat
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Owner:
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Pohatu Nuva
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Released:
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Tuesday, September 14, 2021
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Origin:
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Iceland
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Recently Spotted:
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In A Little Chaos - Grace O'Brien Reserve
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Iceland, Yule Cat - 15 Year Anniversary Tag
I want to see Wildlife and Animals all over the World. Just don't keep me very long and don't put in the middle of a cache in wildness where are no visitors.
The Yule Cat is a huge and vicious cat who is described as lurking about the snowy countryside during Christmas time and eating people who have not received any new clothes to wear before Christmas Eve. He is the house pet of Gryla and her sons.
Though referred to as an ancient tradition, written accounts of the Yule Cat have only been located as recently as the 19th century. The threat of being eaten by the Yule Cat was used by farmers as an incentive for their workers to finish processing the autumn wool before Christmas. The ones who took part in the work would be rewarded with new clothes, but those who did not would get nothing and thus would be preyed upon by the monstrous cat. The cat has alternatively been described as merely eating away the food of ones without new clothes during Christmas feasts. The perception of the Yule Cat as a man-eating beast was partly popularized by poems of Jóhannes úr Kötlum as with the rest of the folklore.
Cat in Icelandic is Köttur, but as Icelandic words take on different forms depending on the sentence, then it can also be Kött, Ketti, and Kattar. And in plural that's Kettir, Ketti, Köttum and Kattar. And then there are some other words such as Kisa (e. kittie) and Kettlingur (e. kitten). A tomcat is called Högni, and a female is called Læða.
Cats have been around in Iceland for centuries, or since Iceland was settled in 870. The Icelandic cat is closely related to cats from Skåne in Sweden, the Faroe Islands, and the Shetland Islands, but much more distantly related to the cat breeds in the rest of the United Kingdom. The cats in Iceland's countryside are more original breed than those in Reykjavík, that have bred with imported species.
Pohatu Nuva 15 Year Anniversary Tag
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geo60cache placed it in A Little Chaos - Grace O'Brien Reserve
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New South Wales, Australia
- 443.71 miles
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Goodbye little cat! Enjoy your adventures
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Pohatu Nuva posted a note for it
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geo60cache retrieved it from A Little Chaos - Grace O'Brien Reserve
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New South Wales, Australia
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Found relaxing in a quaint little suburban pocket park in Sydney.
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IbisGuy placed it in A Little Chaos - Grace O'Brien Reserve
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New South Wales, Australia
- 443.71 miles
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Yule Cat is now in a lovely little park less than 1km from the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Safe travels little guy!
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IbisGuy retrieved it from Melbourne Town Hall TB Hotel
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Victoria, Australia
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Time to head north! Will drop this little guy off in Sydney, preferably at another TB-friendly cache.
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Melon_Sodah discovered it
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Victoria, Australia
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Discovered this safely stored in the Melbourne visitor centre TB hotel :)
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Wombatwandering placed it in Melbourne Town Hall TB Hotel
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Victoria, Australia
- 6.58 miles
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Goodbye Iceland, Yule Cat, it’s time to let you go. I’ve dropped you off in the heart of Melbourne. You are in a big cache housed inside the Melbourne Town Hall. It’s 29 C today. Good luck! 🐨
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Wombatwandering took it to 👜#22 sharkiefan's handbag series 👜
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Victoria, Australia
- 14.31 miles
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A zip over to North Balwyn to visit my Aunt today. Consistently among Melbourne's top 20 most exclusive postcodes, the suburb was lampooned in the 1974 song by Australian band The Skyhooks, Balwyn Calling. There is a jigidi series of caches there based on handbags that I’ve been slowly ticking off over the years. 👜
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Wombatwandering took it to KCT - Rock Wall
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Victoria, Australia
- 10.71 miles
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It’s the Australian Rules Football Grand Final day in Australia today. You went to Sunshine for a Grand Final lunch to watch Collingwood (The Magpies) defeat Brisbane (The Lions). My kids have not been in Australia for this before and can’t believe the hype and frenzy. “It’s nothing like this in England”. Last year, it was my team, The Geelong Cats, who won. Alas, they were not even close this year. 🏆
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Wombatwandering took it to TDOC23: Cachemas Challenge - 100 Checker Attribute
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Victoria, Australia
- 25.51 miles
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Back at Mother Wombat’s house in Werribee. Quickly zipped out for a few caches with you while no one was looking. 👵🏻
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