Maggie’s If you have heaven and hell- then you must have Santa and Krampus

[hermosabeach]

Kids misbehaving- just ask the Germans for help

Before chopping your kids up as your 2nd wife does not like Hansel and Grettel

Utilize Krampus. He sneaks into bad kids rooms and hits them on their hands

If the kid keep misbehaving, Krampus will take and eat you in the forrest.

So parents- grab that ruler and to smack the shit out of your kids knuckles while they sleep. The kids will wake up terrified in a pitch black room and know Krampus was there

 

[oneshot86]

alright the devil has posessed herm, he always has very cool pictures, that hansel and gretle shit aint him

 

[diverdon]

Santa is all we need. Christmas is the celebration of our joy with the gift Jesus has given us. We celebrate it partly by giving gifts to those we love. If you think it would be cool to beat your kid for Christmas, I hope we never meet.

 

[Waorani]

Think I first saw this here a few years ago.

 

[W54/XM-388]

Santa is all we need. Christmas is the celebration of our joy with the gift Jesus has given us. We celebrate it partly by giving gifts to those we love. If you think it would be cool to beat your kid for Christmas, I hope we never meet.

While Krampus is lots of fun, I prefer the good old story of St Nicholas.

Favorite pastimes of St. Nick:
Giving presents to children
Punching Heretics in the mouth

Watch out when St. Nick runs out of presents.

Sometimes kids need a bit of the fear of an angry deity for when they misbehave.

 

[MtnCreek]

I assume it's some pagan tradition that was incorporated into the 'new' Christian belief, like Christmas trees and Easter trees.

 

[W54/XM-388]

I assume it's some pagan tradition that was incorporated into the 'new' Christian belief, like Christmas trees and Easter trees.

You have to be a bit careful when you start going down that path, you might accidentally find a large part of what some count as important pillars of their belief system might actually have been borrowed / grafted on / copied / or otherwise appropriated.
You can get some people really mad at you when you mention the "other religions" their most sacred rituals come from.