Krampus: Punishing wayward chidren for Santa since before Rome

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	Krampus: Punishing wayward chidren for Santa since before Rome

Spiritualmonkey

12-9-2008 1:04 AM

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holidays, krampusnacht, krampus, costumes, fur, mythology, christmas, bdsm

Spiritualmonkey says:

Be good kids, or Krampus the Christmas Ogre will come beat you with a tangle of birch rods!

Dood. You SO DO NOT WANT to find yourself on the "naughty" list where they celebrate old-school Christmas

Big props to cakebelly for hipping a monkey to Krampus.

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Why, he's <A href="http://www.socyberty.com/Holidays/Krampus-The-Sinister-Sidekick-of-Santa.371905">Santa's Sinister Sidekick</A>:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/477988.html"><DIV>See, over in Yurp (where television <A href="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/471994.html">doesn't</A> <A href="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/315899.html">suck</A>), <A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagehalloweencollector/3078492517/in/set-72157594429321748/">Krampus is Yin to Santa's Yang</A>, dark to <A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22770344@N02/3084984907/">Santa's light</A>. They both stem from northern European pagan mythology. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/477988.html"><DIV>Kringle's all carrot, but understood in little Yurpeen kiddies' minds is the thought that the jolly one travels with a stick-bearing ogre with horns. Literally, a stick. Actually <A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagehalloweencollector/3084223324/in/set-72157594429321748/">a collection of birch rods</A>. Kinky. I know several people who might just be naughty on purpose. ;-)</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/477988.html"><DIV>Yes, Krampus gets his own holiday over in Yurp. People (mostly, but not wholly, guys) spend all year making horned-ogre costumes and break them out for the night of Dec. 5th, when they parade through the town, frightening children and (one presumes) offering to give a swat to anyone willing to cop to being bad. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/477988.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/img/8741F8ED-25B1-453F-AEA1-C79069F6E146" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/477988.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/img/171F29BB-2F6F-4D5A-9345-22C26E8F2602" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/477988.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/img/B94DF78A-2DD8-4E03-AE00-885976BA828B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/477988.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/img/A94B8715-0BA4-4B2F-93C3-EFB1C3A657CE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/477988.html"><DIV>And insightful as ever, Lexi wonders "There's a Mrs. Kringle. Where's Mrs. Krampus?" I gotta agree. Even <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grendel">Grendel</A> had a mother.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spiritualmonkey.livejournal.com/477988.html"><DIV>So, next Dec. 5th, out come the <A href="http://pansdevilhorns.com">points</A>. 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