The Devil and Good St. Nick
Posted in Austria, Christmas, Holidays & Celebrations, The Hooligan Chronicles, Travels Here & There, tagged antique postcards, Austria, Christkindlmarkt, Christmas market, devil, krampus, krampus attack, Salzburg, St. Nicholas, St. Nick on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
When I was a child, I never associated St. Nicholas with demons or scary beings of any kind. Sure, St. Nick might leave coal and switches for a naughty child, just as Santa Claus was rumored to do. However, I wasn’t naughty enough to worry about that kind of treatment.
Some stories described a little black [...]
