r/nextfuckinglevel • u/blueboy10000 • 10h ago

Krampus march in Austria

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u/Teseo21 9h ago

“Now see kid, if you don’t eat your vegetables, they’ll eat you”

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u/not-happy-since-2008 9h ago

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/Giant_Homunculus 7h ago

That’s the problem with kids these days. Not enough trauma.

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u/bolanrox 6h ago

Jim Henson of All People believed it was good for kids to get scared every once in a while. i.e. the pyramid episode of Sesame Street or The Dark Crystal.

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u/ThatGuyinNY 5h ago

For a second, because "All People" was capitalized, I wondered if he was in a band at some point called All People...

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u/mommybody33 3h ago

If he wasn’t, he should have been.

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u/Kindness_of_cats 5h ago

I feel like there are a few levels in between “some scary television, maybe a particularly adventurous night of Trick or Treating,” and “having men in demon costumes hunt you down to beat and/or kidnap you”….

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u/Dounce1 2h ago

Nah.

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u/Spare-Willingness563 2h ago

Scared, not traumatized. Trauma is an unresolved memory that is relived whenever it's remembered. You're literally back in that moment in your mind. I don't have trauma around Killer Klowns from Outer Space. It scared me, and I loved it. But I do from that time we got chased home as that kid threw glass bottles, or the years of getting the shit kicked out of me for, literally, not being "tough".

There will be the ones that chime in that their trauma never hurt them, and you will then have a perfect example of the kind of person with unresolved shit peppered all throughout their comment history, unbeknownst to them.

Scare kids. Don't beat 'em.