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There are Krampus-related events (including traditional Krampuslaufs as well as more simple bar crawls) in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Dallas and New Orleans, and there have been at least 10 Krampus-themed horror movies released in North America thus far. Since then, however, we’ve gone Krampus-crazy. Though his exact origins are unclear and believed to date back to pre-Christian Alpine traditions, anthropologists generally believe he’s been terrorizing European children since the 17th Century. Nick distributes oranges, dried fruit and chocolate to the good children, while Krampus unleashes his wrath upon the bad ones. Nicholas and Krampus go from home to home St. 5 on a night dubbed Krampusnacht (or “Krampus Night”), St. We’re talking, of course, about Krampus, the Christmas villain from German and Austrian folklore who serves as a malevolent foil to Saint Nicholas. Sure, there’s the threat of a lump of coal in a stocking, used to keep naughty children in check, but that’s still pretty tame compared to the horned, anthropomorphic goat demon with an affinity for schnapps who shows up to whip misbehaving children with a bundle of birch branches, toss them into a large sack and - depending on which variation of the legend you subscribe to - either eat them or drag them to hell.

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Here in America, we traditionally think of Christmas as being a sweet, cozy holiday full of niceties: brightly wrapped presents, twinkling lights, a genteel old man in a red suit who appears to give you presents, visions of sugar plums, that sort of thing.

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