Other Origins: None known.
Other Names: None known.
Element: Earth.
Appearance and Temperament: The Callicantzaroi are small, skinny, and always nude, They are trooping fearies who, instead of riding horses, ride chickens.
They wear elaborate headgear on their Rades and have the feet of various animals.
Time Most Active: Yule.
Lore: The Callicantzaroi are either partially or totally blind, though no lore tells us how they came to be this way. They spend all time trooping together, especially at Yule, when they heartily celebrate the rebirth of the pagan Sun Gods.
They are often accompanied on their Rades by a host of other crippled faeries who are frightening to look at, though this has nothing to do with their infirmities, but with their grotesque appearance in general.
Italian faery lore tells us that when these customs were transferred to Christmas, it was noticed that the Callicantzaroi vanished after the Twelfth Night and do not return again until the next Midwinter Eve.
They like to foul fresh water, but a touch of hyssop is reputed to counteract this. However, if you would rather not have these faeries around, Nancy Arrowsmith, author of A Field Guide to the Little People says that burning an old show will drive them away.
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