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breebird33 · 5 months

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you better watch out you betTER WATCH OUT YOU BETTER WATCH OUT

Happy Krampusnacht!

#my art #krampus #honestly surprised I have never drawn a krampus before #BUT NOW I HAVE #Krampusnacht

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murdercake · 4 months

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I hope you got everything you wanted this year. Say, what's that over there behind the desk? One more present: My 2023 Krampus comics.

#funny comics #comics #my comics #webcomics #artists on tumblr #funny memes #comic #funny shit #webcomic #funny webcomics #krampus #krampus night #krampusnacht #gruss vom krampus #little drummer boy #mari lwyd #yule cat #calvin and hobbes #elf on the shelf

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helenmask · 5 months

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#art nouveau #helen mask #krampus #krampusnacht

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cat-cosplay · 5 months

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Merry Krampusnacht!

To those on the list... Goodluck!

#Krampusnacht #krampus #cat cosplay #cosplay #cats #kitty #cats in costumes #cat #cats of tumblr #aww #cat costume #fan art #festive #holiday season #naughty

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 1 year

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Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure in the Central and Eastern Alpine folklore of Europe who, during the Advent season, scares children who have misbehaved. Assisting Saint Nicholas, or Santa Claus, the pair visit children on the night of 5 December, with Saint Nicholas rewarding the well-behaved children with modest gifts such as oranges, dried fruit, walnuts and chocolate, while the badly behaved ones only receive punishment from Krampus with birch rods.

#Krampusnacht #celebration #devil #Krampus #creature #half-man #half-goat #horns #goat’s #folklore

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jengrayart · 5 months

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Gruss vom krampus

#krampus karten #krampus art #lady krampus #monster #monster girl #Yule #grussvomkrampus #gruss vom krampus #scary christmas #dark christmas art #dark christmas #krampusnacht

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floridaboiler · 5 months

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#December 5 #Krampus #Krampus night #Christmas #Xmas #Noel #Yule #Krampusnacht #Santa

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goodoldfisticuffs · 5 months

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You Better Watch Out!

You Better Watch Out!!

You Better Watch Out!!!

#art what i did #demons #other people's OCs #ozan #tuz'roz #krampus #krampusnacht #krampusnacht 2023

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pitchcanker · 5 months

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KRAMPUS

#krampus #krampusnacht #Christmas art #Christmas #happy holidays

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hometoursandotherstuff · 5 months

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Well, this is appropriate. I wasn't aware that my anniversary with the ex fell on Krampusnacht.

#Krampus #krampusnacht #december 5th #other stuff

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eregyrn-falls-art · 1 year

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Gruß vom Krampus!

December 5th is Krampusnacht, and I've done some pieces related to that over the years. This year I decided to update my depictions of Stan and Ford in the older two pieces (from 2016 and 2017 respectively), and to put the three all together. The original piece from 2016 was done for the 2017 Hunkles calendar (December of course), and the sequel was done for New Years the following year, with the final pic in the sequence appearing in Dec. 2020.

As I said in the original post, my version of the Krampus is based on looking at traditional folk costumes actually worn by krampus figures in Austria for the Krampusnacht festival.

And finally, just to keep it all in one place: after posting the 2020 piece, I got an ask about the little collection of Pines dolls that hang off of Krampus's basket in the second pic, and that Stan is holding in the last pic. I went into a long explanation (including an overview of the Krampus tradition and celebrations), so I'll put it below a cut here:

fernikart57 asked:

In your Krampus art... what's with that belt, neclace, bead (?) of plushes from the Pines Family?

Okay so like… the explanation is probably kind of dumb. And it’s me making stuff up, rather than relying completely on the actual folklore.

So the Krampus figure is actually a collection of figures from Central Europe, particularly in the Alps, and the specific traditions associated with the Krampus can vary from region to region and town to town. Thus, while a set of the Krampus tropes have kind of been exported and caught on in popular culture, that pop culture figure now only resembles *some* Krampus traditions. I don’t think it’s accurate to talk about “a” Krampus or “the” Krampus, exactly, because of that regional variation. It’s also worth noting that Krampus celebrations are very much alive in various towns in the Alps.

Generally speaking, though, Krampus is a “wild man” figure, often with a demonic face (mask), a furry body, and goat-like features (especially horns). There are some theories that the basic figure itself is pre-Christian (like a lot of the wild-man traditions of Central and Northern Europe). (I personally think that’s pretty plausible, given the range of costumes we see.)

After the advent of Christianity, though, the Krampus became associated with “the devil” or demonic figures. And eventually, in a lot of traditions within the Central European mountain area, Krampus got paired with St. Nicholas, as a kind of tag-team. St. Nicholas in those traditions is almost certainly one of the origins of Santa Claus, in that he rewards well-behaved children with presents. (But, traditionally he dresses like a bishop, and not in the outfit that a lot of Americans are familiar with.) The 6th of December is the Feast of St. Nicholas, so Krampusnacht (”Krampus night”) is the 5th of December. And Krampus acts as the opposite of St. Nicholas – if presents are a means of encouraging good behavior, then Krampus is the threat used to discourage bad behavior.

So, some of the accreted trappings of the Krampus are a whip and a bundle of birch branches, for beating children / people, and a basket that he carries on his back, into which he puts the naughty children he finds, to carry them off for punishment. (Obviously, the message there is: don’t be naughty or the Krampus will get you.) A number of the Krampusnacht traditions involve men costumed as Krampus running wild through the streets, threatening people with their birch branches or whips and so on, making noise (thus all of the bells worn around the neck) and kind of terrorizing people (not just kids), as a set-up for St. Nicholas to come in the next day and reassert order. (Sometimes it’s only “terrorizing” in an “all in good fun” sense, similar to Halloween scariness; but apparently in some towns, it can get kind of rough.)

So with all of that background… I was originally just looking for a sort of “crytpid” or monster for Stan and Ford to be fighting, with a December theme, for that 2017 calendar piece. They are encountering more of a magical, “real monster” version (rather than the folkloric ritual version), and therefore I took some liberties with the idea, even though I incorporated a lot of design elements from a variety of real Krampus costumes.

I didn’t want to put any actual children into Krampus’s basket for Ford and Stan to rescue, though (in the original calendar piece, they wouldn’t have been that visible). But when I did the second piece, I included the doll versions of the four Pines, hanging from Krampus’s basket, as a sort of… symbolic magical threat, an expression of the idea that the Pines are its supernatural targets. The dolls act as kind of representations of Krampus’s targets, and I also thought of them, in that sense, as a darker reflection of the St. Nicholas gift-giving tradition (still toys, but toys with a sinister meaning). If Krampus was a “real” supernatural being that goes around punishing the “naughty” or “wicked”… then what is its definition of “wicked”, and would it be a fair one, or unfair?

In this scenario, Stan and Ford are not in the mood to debate with it over whether it is fair to take them to task for being “naughty”, but they are DEFINITELY not going to stand for the idea that the Krampus might go after Dipper and Mabel, so – time to take it down!

Anyway, for more about the actual Krampus, I recommend taking a look at the Krampus article on Wikipedia, or listening to this excellent podcast (which I was listening to as I finished the piece the other day; am very interested in getting that guy’s book!).

#gravity falls #stanford pines #stanley pines #sea grunks!#krampus #krampusnacht #gruss von krampus!#holidays #folklore #my art #id in alt

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xphaiea · 6 months

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