{"id":11848,"date":"2021-12-24T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11848"},"modified":"2021-12-25T16:24:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T23:24:59","slug":"merry-krampus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/12\/24\/merry-krampus\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Krampus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from InsideHook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Krampus, the German Christmas Demon, Took Over America<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

He whips naughty children with branches and eats them, and he’s winning our hearts<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY BONNIE STIERNBERG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Krampus\"
What says “Christmas” more than a visit from a horned goat-demon? Westend61<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. Sure, there\u2019s the threat of a lump of coal in a stocking, used to keep naughty children in check, but that\u2019s 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 \u2014 depending on which variation of the legend you subscribe to \u2014 either eat them or drag them to hell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re talking, of course, about Krampus, the Christmas villain from German and Austrian folklore who serves as a malevolent foil to Saint Nicholas. As the story goes, every Dec. 5 on a night dubbed Krampusnacht (or \u201cKrampus Night\u201d), St. Nicholas and Krampus go from home to home; St. Nick distributes oranges, dried fruit and chocolate to the good children, while Krampus unleashes his wrath upon the bad ones. Though his exact origins are unclear and believed to date back to pre-Christian Alpine traditions, anthropologists generally believe he\u2019s been terrorizing European children since the 17th Century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from InsideHook How Krampus, the German Christmas Demon, Took Over America He whips naughty children with branches and eats them, and he’s winning our hearts BY BONNIE STIERNBERG What says “Christmas” more than a visit from a horned goat-demon? Westend61 Here in America, we traditionally think of Christmas as being a sweet, cozy holiday full […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}