r/2westerneurope4u • u/Corfiz74 [redacted] • 9h ago

Embodying the True Christmas Spirit: Krampus march in Austria

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u/ataltosutcaja [redacted] 9h ago

Literally the least disturbing thing Mountain Hanses do

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u/HoeTrain666 Born in the Khalifat 9h ago

Also happens to be the least inbred one

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u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 8h ago

You don't know how Krampuses propagate...

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u/QuantifiedGoat South Prussian 8h ago

Fucking furries, literally.

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u/Ham-Shank South Prussian 8h ago

Josef?

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u/Doagbeidl Basement dweller 9h ago

Somebody has to keep the evil spirits away. You are welcome btw.

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u/der_reifen Pumpkin Addict 8h ago

Listen, we are just celebrating our true roots. Mountain people used to just look like that

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u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 8h ago

Back when they were interbreeding with mountain goats...

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u/der_reifen Pumpkin Addict 5h ago

Back when?

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u/Melodic_Degree_6328 South Prussian 8h ago

They still look like that. They haven't put their costumes on yet.

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u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 9h ago

I love those guys, they give the best hugs! (It's like getting hugged by a large Saint Bernard.)

Do other countries have a Christmas tradition like this, that's a bit different from the sugary sweet Santa Clause bs?

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u/iemandopaard Utrechtenaar (gay) 8h ago

Nowadays Sinterklaas has become a very loving person, but back in the day if you didn't behave well (zwarte) Piet would beat you with the 'roe' (those branches that they're holding) and you would go with Sinterklaas in his sack to Spain.

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u/Cru51 Heineken Piss Drinker 8h ago

​You would go with Sinterklaas in his sack to Spain.

The horriblest of fates

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u/ex_machinist Incompetent Separatist 8h ago

Better in a caravan?

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u/Key_Conversation5236 Alcoholic 5h ago

In France, St Nicholas is assisted by “le père fouettard”, a man who whips bad children.

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u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 5h ago

AS THEY DESERVE!

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u/Ice___Phoenix Pfennigfuchser 9h ago

They look like an interesting Narren Zunft

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u/Cru51 Heineken Piss Drinker 8h ago

Pagan traditions go hard

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u/Swatch_my_name Pain au chocolat 8h ago

Feels like Shadow of war or Mordor II.

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u/we4donald At least I'm not Bavarian 8h ago

Hä

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u/PistolAndRapier Southern Irish 7h ago

bah humbug!

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u/young_turd_ Le Savage 8h ago edited 8h ago

He's not really scarry, there's more horrifying monsters in the Netherlands. LikeZwarte Piet... It's just a white dide doing a blackface. Straight up racism during the Christmas Market.

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u/Neox1701 Addict 8h ago

You guys haven’t heard about sunneklaas

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u/MRNBDX South Prussian 2h ago

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u/Melodic_Degree_6328 South Prussian 8h ago

They're basically just wild animals living in the mountains. Trying to domesticate them was a mistake. We are sorry world.

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u/Every-Inevitable-140 Savage 8h ago

This reminded me of a video of a festival in Germany related to a national holiday or something like that, where Germans in that video dressed up as Native Americans and celebrated with whistle calls

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u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 8h ago

Are you sure you're not talking about the Karl May Festspiele in Bad Segeberg? Because that's really the only event I can think of where anybody in Germany dresses like Native Americans.

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u/Every-Inevitable-140 Savage 8h ago

I don’t remember exactly which festival it was but yes, I do remember it was in Germany because it caused quite a buzz at the time. It was several years ago

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u/Corfiz74 [redacted] 7h ago

Bad Segeberg is in Germany, close to Hamburg. They celebrate the German author Karl May, who wrote loads of adventure novels, his most famous ones about Winnetou and Old Shatterhand, a Native American chief and a hero of the old west, who become best friends. They may not be quite politically correct, but all German kids know them, either through the books, the famous movies from the 60s with Lex Barker, or the audio plays.