About this deal
Sometimes, large groups of people dress up as Krampus and run amok throughout the streets, chasing friends and passersby with birch sticks. To ward off these malevolent entities, villagers would create terrifying masks and costumes resembling horned creatures. In Austria in 1923, Krampus and all Krampusnacht activities were banned by the Fascist Christian Social Party. About an hour after the Krampus began their maniacal march, the roars of fire, jarring cowbells and spellbinding whirls of gothic lighting came to an end.
It came to me one day that I could simply do the refurbishment and renovation work myself – after all, I was trained as a joiner so I know my way around wood. Either way, they were sure that Krampus wasn’t good for kids, and they passed out pamphlets titled “Krampus is an Evil Man,” warning parents against influencing young children with threats of a violent holiday intruder.
We asked the community whether there would be rooms available for our passports and for mask carving.
And as he had for thousands of years, Krampus came not to reward, but to punish, not to give, but to take. Instead, he focuses on handing out presents to well-behaved kids and then leaves the rest up to his sinister counterpart. Hopefully you’ve been a good girl or boy this year so that Krampus accepts your offering and passes your household by!Through the eye openings in his mask, it can be seen that he has yellow eyes with jagged horizontal pupils and greyish skin around them.