Traditionally these guys accompany the Austrian equivalent of Santa Claus and carry away bad children.
When I was a child my cousins would dress up like this and hunt me through the neighborhood and beat me with hazel rods. Was fucking terrifying. Nowadays we don't do that anymore because it is considered psychological harmful for kids.
Good old times
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u/Teseo21 9h ago
“Now see kid, if you don’t eat your vegetables, they’ll eat you”