While many people kick off the Christmas season by decking the halls, people in Austria have a more sinister way of getting into the holiday spirit. That's because the residents in some Austrian ...

From a Northern Liberties parade to Krampus photo ops, Philly’s holiday season is trading forced cheer for folklore, horns, and a little rebellion.

Before there was Santa Claus there was Krampus, St. Nick’s pre-Christian, hirsute and horned counterpart. Krampus scampered through wintry Alpine villages across Central Europe. His goal? To coax ...

Krampus is one of the many new Pets introduced with the live Christmas Harvest event in Grow a Garden on December 6, 2025. The rarity of this Pet is Divine, which places it among the rarest in the ...

A new exhibit in the Clarke Historical Museum’s Emmerson Room takes a look at the happy and the horrific in Victorian holiday lore. “For Christmas season this year, I chose to focus on Krampus, who is ...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Krampus around Chicago. If you haven’t met the mythical holiday figure yet, consider yourself lucky — or on the perma-nice list. This towering half-goat, half-demon ...

Krampus, the mythological figure that punishes the naughty, will be making a stop in Albuquerque this weekend, making coal in your stocking seem not so bad. On the nice list this year? Check out one ...

Bo Counts, the owner of Pinpoint in Fayetteville, said the response to his Krampus-themed float was surprising. What we know about the suspect in the Brown and MIT professor shootings ICE says US ...

When Edgar Loesch was growing up, his Christmas was filled with family, friends and St. Nicholas. But his German parents also had one, terrifying addition: a hairy monster named Krampus who they said ...

The fifth annual Krampusnacht Bremerton, a local version of a centuries-old Bavarian winter tradition, brought thousands of spectators to downtown streets on a chilly Saturday night. They were there, ...

In Salzburg, Austria, Christmas involves both St. Nick and Krampus, a mythological punisher with roots stretching back to late antiquity and many... It's Christmastime — and if you live in the Alps, ...

Krampus figures, demonic characters from Central Alpine folklore linked to punishing misbehaving children with birch rods, march through the streets of Munich during an annual Christmas parade. The ...