Holidays, the main reason life is worth living. From Halloween to Christmas, Easter to Thanksgiving. These are the top six myths that will keep you up at night, question your view on them, and make you look up your chimneys for these guys.

Number Six: The Easter Bunny. This bizarro-tron bunny lays eggs like a bird/bunny hybrid. This guy started off with the Lutherans, a tribe of Germanic nomads,  as well as the star of several animated cartoon movies; pretty much acting like Jolly Ol’ St. Nick if he went furry. He also was portrayed as an awesome Aussie by Hugh Jackman in “Rise of the Guardians,” where he tosses boomerangs at people he doesn’t like and jumps down holes like a mix of Mario and Earthworm Jim prior to having the super suit dropping on him like a Thwomp (Giant rock enemies that try to flatten our pasta loving hero like a pancake).

Number Five: Santa Claus. This guy, other than being a big hit with the Christmas shopping crowd, and being portrayed as a guy with a thick Russian accent surrounded by yetis in “Rise of the Guardians,” flies around on reindeer that somehow can fly (how that works is beyond the average person) so he can drop down in chimneys and give presents to good little children on Christmas Eve– if they leave him milk and cookies, that is. What brings him here is that he SOMEHOW breaks and enters to leave gifts and eats your stuff. Not cool.

Number Four: Leprechauns. These little guys are the patron saints of hoarding gold, playing pogo on people’s lungs for no reason, and playing “Mario Kart” with their own custom made karts (and Ewoks portrayed by Warwick Davis). They put the pot of gold they got at a rainbow’s end, and if they end up being outwitted and interrogated well enough, a lucky guy (or girl) ends up with enough gold to fill 20 Fort Knoxs, or you can melt said gold to make coins and pawn them off. The possibilities are endless, indeed, but if you jump into their hole, you’re gonna be one of them– so there’s that.

Number Three: Catrina. Day of the Dead, (no, not the George A Romero movie), is a holiday involving alters, spirits and spooky scary skeletons. Said spirits involve those of children and adults. The holiday is still celebrated to this day with sugar skulls and Catrina. The most popular figure in the holiday, Catrina is pretty much a spooky scary skeleton wearing a dress, which is weird, but not as weird as the fact that the holiday was the Aztec way of appeasing the god and goddess of the underworld, Mictlantecuhtli and Mictecacihuatl, rulers of Aztec Netherrealm. It’s like the American Netherrealm except it has nachos, four cheese omelettes and jalapenos.

Number Two: Cupid. Nowadays, Cupid’s been getting a good reputation as being something out of a cheesy romantic comedy and being the invisible force responsible for couples; but what many people don’t know is that this little angel of love is the Roman god of pegging single people with specially tipped love arrows.

Number One: Snakes banished from Ireland. Talking about religion is a pretty touchy-feely subject, especially since holiday myths are involved, but St. Patrick telling the snakes to get out of the Emerald Isle is probably the most over the top thing ever. It kind of went like this: one day, some Christian dude named St. Patrick was walking around Ireland minding his own business when he notices that the snakes were wreaking havoc, like serpentine versions of Trogdor the dragon man. So he decided to get his game face on and tell the snakes to get out of Ireland, lest they feel the wrath of the almighty sky daddy himself. So please, don’t go placing any curses, hexes or anything just because I butchered your story.