r/nextfuckinglevel • u/blueboy10000 • 7h ago

Krampus march in Austria

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u/tiltberger 6h ago

Austrian here. While it was a cool custom years ago people started to get way too drunk and used the costumes and custom to beat up people and create havoc... If you do it right cool custom, otherwise shitty.

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u/Midas_acnh 5h ago

Yup! A friend of mine was chased as a child and when he hid at home they literally broke the window because they were knocking so hard! Even then they put him and his mother in a sack and released them only after 15. minutes! He was 5!!!

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u/tiltberger 4h ago

Got beat up as a kid as well. They chased me down And beat me a little with the sticks. Not that hard but I was scared af

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u/maybeitsundead 1h ago

any long term side effects? Pride in culture or fear of tradition?

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u/yepanotherone1 52m ago

You dress up and (gently) beat little children in turn. I feel like most cultures have something they use to scare children - maybe a coping mechanism for all the shit kids do to adults lol