Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil
by
Al Ridenour, Sean Tejaratchi
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
The Krampus, a folkloric devil associated with St. Nicholas in Alpine Austria and Germany, has been embraced by the American counterculture and is lately skewing mainstream. The new Christmas he seems to embody is ironically closer to an ancient understanding of the holiday as a perilous, haunted season. In the Krampus' world, witches rule Christmas, and saints can sometimes kill.