When he and his associates show up, he'll start reading off a list of every time a kid has misbehaved in the past year, while said kid trembles in terror under the ...

birch branches used for swatting, connect him to older, earthbound traditions. In some depictions, he carries a sack to cart off disobedient children straight to Hell. Usually, Krampus doesn’t ...

While Saint Nicholas rewards well-behaved children with gifts, those who have misbehaved are punished by his fearsome, birch rod-wielding companion. The Krampus ... be made from branches, they ...