and a happy Sinterklaas back to you ^^ Krampus totally kicks the ass of the wimpy Zwarte Piet we have here in the low lands

Ooh, that's a new one to me. *looks it up*

I love the folklore of other nations. The states have nothing that interesting...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet

they're mostly a 19th century invention, when most of the current dutch/belgian sinterklaas mythos was invented by writer Jan Schenkman (although the celebrations themselves go back to the middle ages). The possible links of Sinterklaas with Odin mentioned in the Wikipedia article are also mostly invented by Schenkman. Before the 19th century Sinterklaas worked alone in the Netherlands and Belgium, as opposed to central Europe where he had the Krampus, Knecht Ruprecht, Pere Foutard or other sinister or evil helpers. One of the Frisian islands in the north of the Netherlands do have a sort of Krampusnacht called Sunderum that is a seperate thing from the Sinterklaas festivities.

Hope that quenced your curiosity a little

This makes me LOL like a moron.

Especially since I have no Idea what your talking about.

*ish hypnotizzled by teh epicness of teh hypnocandycane*

WIKI!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

That makes me moist.

That would be horrible.

Now if it was an horned, lecherous borderline pedophilic equine demon that might be more acceptable

Well...I don't know about the "lecherous borderline pedophilic" part, but there is always the Tikbalang.

sounds delicious

...I am happy now

...........go on

I'm still looking for a krampus icon :C

I was going to do a picture to commemorate but I've been so busy that I haven't been able to afford that much idle time. :(

Sure beats the hell out of the Grinch!!

I've got a large, blonde bodyguard. It's all good.

Horned lecherous goat-demon? I fit the bill. Who wants to get dragged off to hell? We can make this happen.

I wanted to go up to Munich when I heard about it, but I've only been in Germany for a week so far and am not that organized yet. XD Sounds like a blast though!