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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: rpm on December 24, 2004, 09:44:39 PM
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Has anyone ever heard of the Krumpus? It's a mythical beast/devil that shows up on Christmas Eve instead of Santa Claus and gives beatings to the naughty children? The story sure got some kids attention this afternoon!
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RPM my mother-in-law informed me that in Germany St Nick has a broom (It took some interpreting from my wife and sister in law)
If kids are bad St. Nick beats them with the broom instead of presents. That's the closest I got in my house. Of course we have the mythical wooden spoon here fro bellybutton woopens.
Hope maybe this helps.
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Your Mom was a sick person, RPM......
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Krumpus huh? My dad didn't need no stink'n Krumpus!
Actually from what I have heard, the myth seems to vary a lot. Sometimes he even acompanies St. Nick as his "helper" and lays the smack down on bad kids with the sticks he carries in his bag.
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Originally posted by Heiliger
Krumpus huh? My dad didn't need no stink'n Krumpus!
Actually from what I have heard, the myth seems to vary a lot. Sometimes he even acompanies St. Nick as his "helper" and lays the smack down on bad kids with the sticks he carries in his bag.
That's the version I heard. He's a hairy goat/devil that beats the naughty children. I've been searching the web without much success. So far all I come up with is it seems to be a big part of the Berchtesgaden christmas festival. The closest American version would be Santa giving a lump of coal instead of a DVD player. I like the whooping story better, it was very effective on my greatneices and nephews today.
I also found a reference to it in a Venture Brothers script:
A weird demon guy with chains on his hands, two scared children in a basket on his back and a long tongue busts through the door. He wanders around as Dr. O explains that this intruder is the Krumpus. A demon that once rode side-by-side with St. Nicholas and dished out punishment to boys and girls who had been naughty while St. Nick dished out toys to the nice.
Dr. Venture: That's ridiculous, there's no such thing as Santa Claus.
Dr. Orpheus: Not since he was killed by a jet in 1963, no. Nor has there been a Krumpus since the pope cast him into purgatory during Vatican two. But your boys seem to have inadvertently released him from his chains.
Hank: Dean did it, I wanted to read the Grinch!
Dean: [mumbles since his mouth is still locked shut]
[Krumpus licks Triana's face]
Triana: Uhm, dad?
Dr. Venture: What kind of kinky Christmas spirit is that?
Dr. Orpheus: It is Germanic in origin.
Dr. Venture: Well can't you just- I don't know, magic it away or something?
Dr. Orpheus: No more than you could science it away. No, the beast will not stop until it has punished the wicked in this house!
Dr. Venture: Well there's no one wicked-
The Krumpus grabs Dr. Venture and this point (never saw that coming I bet) and starts hitting him with a palm branch and then smacks his head into the ground a few times.
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Google it.