Merry Krampus! Serious Street Scares Are SNOW Joke To Kids In Austria

Posted • November 28, 2024: Now that Thanksgiving is winding down, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas and there really is no better time for yours truly to tell you dear readers about Krampus! Watch this video from Austria, where the lore of Krampus began: Krampus March in Austria. This is pretty cool. Krampus is a Christmas demon in Austria and across the German-speaking Alpine region in Europe. Krampus appears in the folklore of Austria, Bavaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Northern Italy (Autonomous Province of Trento, South Tyrol, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia), Slovakia, and Slovenia. He is said to accompany jolly old Saint Nicholas on his rounds to visit children on December 5th (The Feast of St. Nicholas being on December 6th). Santa obviously rewards good children, but Krampus is who punishes naughty children (the severity of the punishment varies from lore to lore.)

Krampus is thought to come from either Bavarian: krampn, meaning "dead", "rotten", or from the German: kramp/krampen, meaning "claw". The Krampus is considered to be a half-goat, half-demon monster in some legends. Its role is to punish bad children or scare them into being good. Not gonna lie, if this thing showed up at this writer's house, we'll agree to be good, no questions asked. -- The women of the 4B movement on their way to the Capitol on J6. All they're missing is a vulgar pink hat! Or maybe red robes and a white hood, which, let's face it, would TOTALLY go with the Christmas theme. -- “Hey, kids! Want to go to a Christmas parade?” That's amazing! 😮 Their resemblance to the 2024 DC Women's March drummers is uncanny. 😏 Liberal women are taking the Trump win REALLY hard! (…)

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