{"id":6392,"date":"2009-12-21T10:50:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T15:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6392"},"modified":"2017-09-16T19:13:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T00:13:41","slug":"santas-evil-side-kick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/21\/santas-evil-side-kick\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa’s Evil Side Kick"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the U.S., many little girls and boys are told that, if they don’t behave, they won’t get any presents on Christmas.\u00a0 Sound like a significant threat?<\/p>\n

Some cultures–parts of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Italy–have an anti-Santa Claus, Krampus.\u00a0 Krampus is Santa’s sidekick; he’s his evil twin, if you will.\u00a0 He stalks the streets hitting people with switches.\u00a0 If a child is bad, Krampus will take the child’s gifts away.\u00a0 If the child is awake Christmas Eve night, Krampus will take the child away!<\/p>\n

Krampus:<\/p>\n

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More images found here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>,\u00a0via<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the U.S., many little girls and boys are told that, if they don’t behave, they won’t get any presents on Christmas.\u00a0 Sound like a significant threat? Some cultures–parts of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Italy–have an anti-Santa Claus, Krampus.\u00a0 Krampus is Santa’s sidekick; he’s his evil twin, if you will.\u00a0 He stalks the streets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,1766,1777,1819,1805,293],"class_list":["post-6392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-nation-austria","tag-nation-germany","tag-nation-italy","tag-nation-switzerland","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6392"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71180,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6392\/revisions\/71180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}