Christmas is generally thought of as a cheerful holiday, though some of its longstanding traditions have a darker side. Yuletide legends have historically been used not just to delight children, but to scare them into behaving properly. Some traditions involve demonic monsters who work alongside Santa to punish the bad kids. They’re Christmas versions of the good cop/bad cop routine. So are those terrible parenting techniques why New England Puritans outlawed Christmas from 1659 to 1681? Of