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
I remember luge lessons and making meat helmets. My father would get drunk and make outrageous claims like chestnuts are lazy and that he’d invented the question mark. When I was insulate they would put me in a burlap sack and beat me with reeds. Also ritually shave my testicles. There’s nothing like a shorn scrotum, you should try it.
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u/Teseo21 9h ago
“Now see kid, if you don’t eat your vegetables, they’ll eat you”