Originally published at: Krampus, the origins of a Yuletide monster | Boing Boing
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I watched that last night… biggest take away is that it’s not a pre-Christian figure like some claim, but was pretty much a mythology from the Christian era.
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I was hoping for a “How Pepsi invented the Krampus” story.
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None of that, though she does address the craze for Krampus more recently with Krampus parades being a tourist draw and a whole bunch of horror films about Krampus… so that’s a kind of commercialization. But the earliest references seem to be about the 15th century I think she said… so, predates Pepsi, at least!
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Bitten by a radioactive cramp?
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Yes.
Yeeesh, gimme Morris Dancers any day.
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Your average Krampus is a really good individual, once you get to know them. Give Krampus a chance.
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Or, you know, a child.
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Not to mention that a christmas devil has a certain… sex appeal…
This one here is my favorite:
Look at the fellow in the basket. “Nyehehehe. I´ve been naughteeeeeee…”
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He’s looking forward to some, um, recreational punishment.
The place we took riding lessons is near a convenience store called (snicker) S&M Market. I told a friend, and he LOL’d. “A pack of Marlboro Lights and a light whipping, please!” was his eventual response. The next time we were there, I told the lady behind the counter (a cool-looking middle aged lady with a smoke in her hand who’s Seen It All) what my friend’d said when I told him the name of the place, and she LHAO 
OOOOOOooooooOOOO! I’ll hafta see if I can hunt down that one! Sounds XLNT!
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Jolly Old St Nicked and en-tumblr’d!
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ALSO: all the other Monstrum videos
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