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“Our children deserve better:” Christian leaders object to Krampus
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Krampus events experience some backlash and religious leaders claim that the alpine tradition invokes fear and is “satanic.”
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Krampus events experience some backlash and religious leaders claim that the alpine tradition invokes fear and is “satanic.”
Pagan Perspectives
Today’s column comes to us from The Wild Hunt’s Editor-in-Chief, Manny Tejeda-Moreno. The Wild Hunt’s weekend section is always open for submissions. Please send queries to eric@wildhunt.org. We’ve all likely heard the classic poem The Twelve Days of Christmas, which probably began as a children’s forfeit game played a couple of centuries ago near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The song commemorates the days that begin with the Feast of Stephen Protomartyr and end with the Feast of Epiphany, or Twelfth Night.