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These Details About Krampus, the Christmas Demon, would Make all Children Fear the Holidays

Trista December 21, 2018 12 min

Krampus mit Kind (“Krampus with a child”) postcard from around 1911. Auktionshaus Markus Weissenböck/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain.

28. He Carried Bad Children to the Underworld

Naughty children, in particular, dreaded the arrival of Krampus and his sack full of birch sticks that he used to beat them. That’s right, while Santa Claus carried a bag full of toys to give to the good children, Krampus carried a sack in which he would stuff naughty children so that he could take them straight to hell.

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28. He Carried Bad Children to the Underworld

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