John Foster|Accidental Mysteries
December 24, 2016
A Krampus Christmas
At the close of the nineteenth century and the early years of the twentieth, children in Eastern Europe had deal with Krampus, a cloven-hooved, horned, furry creature with red eyes—the polar opposite of St. Nicholas—created by adults to scare the pure living hell out of wayward kids. Did I mention he had a long red tongue?
While ol’ St. Nick gave toys to all the good little boys and girls, Krampus brought switches and lumps of coal to mildly naughty kids. If you were really bad, you would go to bed on December 24th with the thought of Krampus showing up at the foot of your bed, ready to chain you to his wheelbarrow for a night of torture. Krampus was a bad, bad dude. After more than a hundred years, the creepy character of Krampus has finally made the transition from Europe to America.
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