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seeth_ransome

Christmas Thingamajig 10

Dec 23, 2011 18:34

Krampas gave my daughter an orange at the Christmasmarkt in Wurzberg. He looked more like a Santa in a brown coat with a black beard and he accompanied a very relgious looking St. Nicholas. They call him Knecht Ruprecht.

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calicocat2 December 23 2011, 19:19:14 UTC

Sounds like Krampas is alive and well in Bavaria. Thanks for the history lesson; I had never heard of Krampas...interesting. Did he scare the kids?

calicocat2 December 23 2011, 20:33:02 UTC

Did he ask Swede if she could pray before he gave her an orange?

seeth_ransome December 24 2011, 01:40:40 UTC

No, although I suspect that had we been in a more familiar setting (at home, church, etc.) instead of the street, he might have been more inquisitive. This was well after the 6th of DEC so, who knows?

seeth_ransome December 24 2011, 01:52:58 UTC

Not that I saw. He just looked at our little girl with her big innocent blue eyes and offered her an orange. That was probably due to St. Nicholas being engaged in conversation with other revelers. Some of the adults came up and heckled him a bit (I think, its hard to say exactly because it was all in German).

wonderwomna December 23 2011, 22:06:20 UTC

There were so many great things about that clip. I love Christmas in Germany, and I'm not surprised that Jesus saved Santa from certain death because that's what Jesus does: He saves.

seeth_ransome December 24 2011, 01:45:31 UTC

I'm glad you liked it. Its funny--Germany is quickly making Christmas my favorite holiday.