Krampus Night
written by: Eric Shelman
Krampus Night has come
drink our special alcohol
don masks, costumes
running for Krampus
traditionally, had men
costumed as half-goats
half-demons carrying
cowbells, torches, birch bundles
which was intended
to disperse winter’s ghosts
sometime throughout the
ages, Krampus, became an
anti-Santa symbol
while St. Nicholas, patron
saint of children, came
bearing sweets that were
left in the shoes of good kids
Krampus, would arrive
with sticks beating bad ones
snatching them away
in his sack
there’s nothing like using
scare tactics to transform
naughty kids into nice
these runs happen
in Austria, Germany, Czech
Republic, Hungary, Slovenia
and more recently, the U.S.
getting chased down the
street by a horned beast
with fangs is sure to be
the most memorable
Christmas you will ever have
with their little children
‘Krampuses’ their children
dressed up in costumes
running around too
horrifying half-goat
half-demon beast who
rampages through streets
terrorises kids with whips
chains will be another visitor
for Christmas-time, YuleTide
and Winter’s season
folk
boogey
corrector
authority
lore
Krampus, in central European popular
legend
Running rampagingly round everywhere
Alcohol-fueled annual parades
Managing mischievous miscreants
misfortunes
Punishing perverted progenies piously
Unruly unrighteous children
Saint Nicholas’ diabolical devil double
Nullifying naughty children
Informing, and instilling fear into infants
Grizzly, ghastly, grotesquely gaining, giving
pains
Hissing, hollering, horrendously
Taking, tearing tots’ toys, treasures
Adversary, antithesis, anthropomorphic
apparition
Beating, bullying, bashing, biting, branches
bundles, banned, but brought back
Companion, children, censored, chasing
carrying chains, Christmas Devil
capturing
Devil, demonic, disciplinarian dragging
disobedient, drowning, declared
December 5th, and 6th
Evil, eating, eerie
Fearsomely frightening, fangs
Gifts, gangly, goat
Half-demon, half-goat, Hel’s son, Hell horns, hoofed feet
Ill-behaved, injuries
Justified jurors, judge’s judgments
Krampus, Krampus Run, Krampus Night
knockout, kidnapping, killing
kamikaze kabobs kids
Luring, leading, long tongue, lambasting
Mythological, misbehaving, mischievous
mangy
Naughty, notorious, nemesis
Ordering, obnoxious offsprings
Phantasm, punishing, and rewarding
dynamic, passing out and
exchanging holiday cards
Questioning, questing, querying
Run, rectifying ridiculous, rotten runts
Saint Nicholas’ Day, Saint Nicholas;
stealing, scary, switches
Tricky, troublesome tots, treats, toys
treasures
Ubiquitously unsteadied, unruly urchins
Viscously vindicating vilifications
Winter Solstice, wrong
Yelling
Zigzagging zanily
terror
judge and jury
deemed disciplinarian
scaring kids, to be nice, righteous
demon
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