Krampus. The Evil Companion of Santa (23 pics)

The first one is really scary.

OMG! I'm Austrian (hence my avatar name) and I swear to God..."Krampus" is the epitome of every woman in Austria who is having "their visitor" every month. ohllll.man
it's just like this dude, except worse

they do look scary!

WOW I want one of them

i want one too!!

Great idea! Scare the living hell out of the little kids! That'll make 'em behave!

Behave Johnny! or I will send (picture one) Krampus after you!....Oh Shit!!!

Every mythological and religious creature has it's red-headed stepchild.

this is America's problem, too many situations we kept the yin, but not the yang.

Motherf#$king horny devils.

Last sunday they were in my city.nice costumes with fire show.

I'm hungarian. And I've never seen any creatures like these above at Christmas-time. But actually it is told to children, if the were bad, the Krampusz will give them some Virgcs and they won't get any gifts from Santa. But they are not coming at christmas time, but at the 6th of December.
Virgcs: http://acelcsaba.blog.hu/2010/
12/04/virgacs_1

And Krampusz is not a scaery creature at all. I would call it funny. Krampusz iz not evil.

Picture of Krampusz: http://www.mimicsoda.hu/cikk.p
hp?id=199

it's recession kids. this year we celebrate Christmas and Halloween at the same time.

Thanks for the info dodi, I had never heard of it before.

see now I know there is no such creature cuz there is only one that travels with santa and some of these pics have more than one demon in them....I call fake!!

lame..

dodi,
American nonsense...Why do you want from a people without culture and traditions?

astroboy3000:

This is one yang I don't want, I like my Christmas's less horrifying...not more.

Im from Austria, and i know those Krampus Creatures very well

Here we have a day for st. Nikolaus which i think was the 6. dez , and on 7. dez is Krampus Day. On the Countryside there are big "krampus parades" in every village

In most christian familys on dez 6. there comes the Nikolaus and brings some gifts, and in the past kampus came with him. When I was a child is saw the Krampus 2 or 3 times in our house and every year on the parade.

Krampus is told to have one normal foot and one hoof, he takes the bad children with his basket to the forest and they never come again, also its told that he brings coal instead of apples and nuts.

holy cow! now there's some incentive to behave!

Ugly fcukers!