Alaina Urquhart
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Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
During the 12th century, actually, the Catholic Church tried to banish any Krampus celebrations or any kind of like having him to do with anything because they said he was basically the devil.
Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
And actually in 1934, as recently as 1934, Austria's conservative Christian Social Party also tried to have him eradicated.
Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
But none of these things have held and Krampus has lived on.
Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
So he traditionally is seen visually to have a long, like gross tongue.
Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
And it's like a forked long tongue.
Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
He's kind of, he's like half demon, half goat.
Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
And he's also seemed to have one human foot and one cloven hoof.
Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
But I couldn't find anything to, like, why that is.
Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
I don't know if it's just to make him even creepier.
Morbid
Episode Revisit: Santa’s Dark Helpers
In a 1958 article about the Krampus legend in...