A Krampus greeting card. | brandstaetter images/GettyImages. Krampus has become increasingly popular on this side of the pond—he's shown up on Venture Brothers, Grimm, Supernatural, The Colbert ...

He thieves, he gives out coal, and as these vintage cards indicate, generally torments all the naughty boys and girls ... "Greetings from Krampus!" 2. KRAMPUS ON HIS BROOMSTICK.

It’s traditional to send out Krampus greeting cards. In Austria, parts of Germany and along most of the Alpine-region of Europe, it’s traditional to send out holiday cards from Krampus.

Daw’s 40 page book, “A Very Krampus Christmas”, strives to provide more background on Krampus — what his family is like, what he blogs about, his drug addiction, and what he did before ...

Legendary Pictures are welcoming in the holidays with 3 KRAMPUS greeting cards. Based on the ancient legend of a pagan demon who punishes the wicked, Legendary Pictures’ KRAMPUS, a twisted horror ...

An Austrian greeting card, ... An Austrian greeting card, from around 1911, showing Krampus capturing a bad child. Expand. By Jacqueline Cutler. UPDATED: April 9, 2018 at 5:34 AM EDT.

Between then and World War I, German companies sold Krampus Christmas cards in Germany, Austria, and other countries, often with slogans like “Gruss vom Krampus” (Greetings from Krampus) or ...

And friends started forwarding me the Krampus greeting cards that had started floating around online. It was sort of just love at first sight. I always wanted to do a scary Christmas movie.

You might see him posed harmlessly on a greeting card or reproduced in chocolates or figurines. ... Originally, Krampus was a purely pagan creation, said to be the son of Hel from Norse mythology.