![]() ![]() ![]() Well-behaved children who could adequately recite their prayers on command would receive small gifts from the stern saint those who were not and could not would receive a beating with Krampus’s switch. Traditionally, Saint Nicholas would lead these krampuslaufs (“Krampus runs”) to visit farmsteads and check on the behavior of children. Clad in fur, heavy chains, and noisy cowbells, troops of Krampusse (the correct plural of Krampus) run through alpine villages on St. Websites, TV shows, comic books, a major motion picture, not to mention several live events around the country, have brought this dark figure out of shadows of the Alps and into America’s popular consciousness.įor the uninitiated, Krampus may seem an odd fit for Christmastime. Sometime at the start of this decade, Americans started to take an interest in Krampus-a shaggy, horned demon who punishes and occasionally eats wicked children at the command of St. ![]()
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