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Krampus
Krampus is a Southern Germanic/Austrian myth/folk lore about a demonic companion of Saint Nicholas, that is believed to be originally the son of the Norse Goddess of the underworld Hel. Like so many Germanic traditions dealing with the Christmas season like the Christmas tree, it was depaganized and incorporated by the Catholic church to pull in converts.
The current traditions and stories follow with the idea that the Krampus tags along with Saint Nicholas during the Christmas Season to punish naughty and wicked children in contrast to Saint Nicholas' rewarding all the good and well behaved children with toys and other desired gifts.
Like most things that require reading, an interest in foreign cultures or anything that may exist outside their cultural comfort zone, most Americunts had no idea that the Krampus even existed until The Venture Brothers did a Christmas special introducing the Krampus as a Christmas figure in their 2004 episode A Very Venture Christmas. Like most new and good ideas that are introduced elsewhere and looking to hide his lack of creativity with other people's creativity and ideas, Seth MacFarlane quickly latched onto this brand new, readily available Public Domain character like a hungry Deer Tick and has been sucking it off for all it is worth every Christmas, since 2010, in his American Dad revision of Family Guy until no one even cared when a Krampus movie was released in 2015.
Die Krampusnacht
Die Krampusnacht or The Night Of Krampus usually preceeds The Feast Of Saint Nicholas on the 5th of December in European, Catholic communities. To be inclusive of American traditions and to participate in that Capitalistic tradition of greedy Christmas, many have started associating the Krampus with Santa Claus and started having him visit naughty children on Christmas Eve as Santa's companion so that Christmas Cards, ornaments, figures and toys can be sold at that time of the year when most people throw caution to the wind when it comes to their credit and spend to spend.
During The Night Of The Krampus, the Krampus joins with Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus to visit the homes of children. He carries with him brine soaked switches to punish the naughtier children with bare bottomed whippings. For the naughtiest children, the Krampus wears what looks like a golf bag over his shoulder. Inside it is a portal to Hell and the Krampus stuffs the naughtiest children inside it. Some say the Krampus' bag sings with the screams of damned children while others claim that if you were to look down into it you would see children trying desperately to climb their way out, pleading for forgiveness and promising to be good. In contrast, the mildly bad or slightly misbehaved child might have a favorite toy broken by the Krampus or have rocks or coal added to their stockings. Some have said that the traditional orange that is given out during Christmas may even be replaced with something sour like a lemon. If the child doesn't want to earn a bare bottom whipping the next year, then they must eat the lemon before the open any of their gifts.
