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The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas
The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil | Al Ridenour
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The Krampus, a folkloric devil associated with St. Nicholas in Alpine Austria and Germany, has been embraced by the American counterculture and is lately skewing mainstream. The new Christmas he seems to embody is ironically closer to an ancient understanding of the holiday as a perilous, haunted season. In the Krampus' world, witches rule Christmas, and saints can sometimes kill.
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LibrarianRyan I NEED TO GET THIS FOR JOSH!!! 4y
BethM 😂 4y
KatieDid927 I‘m low key obsessed with Krampus 4y
Linsy This is awesome! I love this!! 4y
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Happy Krampusnacht!
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LeahBergen I‘ve never read anything about Krampus. I really must! 4y
LauraJ @LeahBergen This is a light-hearted but scholarly history of Krampus. Highly recommended! 4y
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For those of you who wish Halloween would never end I give you the Victorian Legend of Krampus. Celebrated on Dec 5th with roots in Norse and Greek mythology he acts as the evil counter to jolly old St. Nick

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