Alaina Urquhart

Like they started out way scarier and then they kind of turn into something better, which I think Santa Claus himself, which we're not going to cover tonight.

Maybe we'll cover him in another one.

But Santa Claus himself started off as like super scary and fucked up.

Yeah, that alone is scary.

I know, because what do you do when that's bad when you're sleeping?

You're just chilling.

Yeah.

So that's kind of fucked up.

Yeah, he's like pulling a Night Stalker.

So most of these traditions, like we said before, they really focus on making your kids behave.

That's the main focus for, it seems, European households during Christmas season.

Hashtag German parenting.

yeah it's just to scare the shit out of your kids to make them behave hey i respect it man so the first one i'm gonna hit tonight for santa's little helpers is arguably the most infamous probably the one that a lot of people know about krampus it's krampus good old krampus krampus um krampus's roots actually don't really have a lot to do with christmas

Now we've turned him into a Christmas thing.

But they dated back to pre-Germanic paganism in the region.

So his name was originally Krampen, which means claw.

And basically the legend was that he was the son of the Norse god of the underworld, Hel.

Fun.

Like literally just Hel, which he kind of is.

He still is.