The Krampus | The Grimm Archives
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- The Krampus has become known as the evil version of Santa Claus, causing mischief and stealing away children to devour them. But who is he really, and where does he come from? Welcome to the Archives.
This is the "pilot" episode of The Grimm Archives, first posted to its own channel on October 28, 2016.
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Fredrik Knudsen I'll have two Number 9's, a Number 9Large, a Number 6 with extra Dip, a Number 7, Two Number 45's, one with Cheese, and a large Soda.
Fredrik Knudsen Hope you do a episode of Spring Heeled Jack's blue fire spitting ass on you channel soon. But I enjoy learning about stuff I didn't know anything about like Baba Yaga, so do whatever you already planned and disregard any influence this may cause.
Fredrik Knudsen these Grimm videos are excellent, please keep then going!
so hungry give me more grimm archive content... urgh i am so hungry
Around 6:18
Whats with the entourage of Ghosts? The Perchten Ghosts? Its around the middle of the vid. Are they realy as big as children? I think i saw a couple once..
But you guys have no Idea how Popular the Krampus/Perchtenlauf is. Being in a Perchten group is the "Dream" of many Teenage Boys of the Countryside (and for some girls too), many of them lie about it, saying stuff like ''Oh yeah I'm in a Perchten Group, yeah that's me on the Group Photo, no didn't take it from the Internet what are you talking about? No i don't have Mask Anymore i sold it obviously so i can get a new one.''
And as you can guess, these Costumes are really expensive, like a new Mask cost easily over 300€, a good fur over 600€ and then there are some other things you need like the Cow clocks, Chains, Horsetail etc.
So yeah, it is basically the Austria Version of Fursuiters ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Dressing as a scary Monster, making a hella Noise, wrestling with other Poeple in scary Costumes and visiting other Poeples Houses, scaring the shit out of little Children.
Yeah, I can't see, why someone would like to be in such a Group. :D
Das is aber wirklich nur ein Traum von den Bauernkindern. O.o
Any event that lets you hit people with switches without repercussions is bound to be a fun fucking holiday for ANYBODY.
Well that sounds fun
The Dutch have really removed all the best elements from that Holiday, to the point that only one island still practices the old traditions in total secret, locking down the Island to perform their ritual in peace.
So, you're telling me that somewhere in the Austrian coutry sides there is a christmass tradition dictating dudes to dress up as these weird wookie devils and wrestle each other? Man, this might just be the best christmass tradition i ever heard of.
Not just in the countryside, it's done in Vienna and other Austrian cities too.
Not somewhere every where. There are also Perchtenläufe (runs) in big shopping centers
We are everywhere >:D
You should check out the festivals where they "parade" down the street. Costumes look almost real. Check out the youtube vids
Its a festivus for the rest of us
i'm sorry, but did you say that saint nicks roam around with packs of krampuses and fight them? as in, they're essentially pokemon trainers?
bell nall hahaha gotta catch em all you know.
krampusmon
More like turf wars I imagine
Thank you
alright time for a krumpus nuzlocke run
Greetings from Austria!
A "Berchtel" is allmost the same as a "Krampus"
But a Berchtel have bigger masks and they look kind a like totemfaces, if you know what i mean, and there masks are allways made out of wood. the masks of Krampuses are often made out of plastic or rubber and look much more like you would imagine the devil. the rods, here they called "Ruatn" from a Krampus is made out of twigs from a specific bush. where the "Ruatn" of Berchtln are made out of foxtails. on Dezember 5th everyone who is on the streets watching them gets it and i think you can imagine how that hurts. kids try to sneak behind them to ring on their bells and run away for fun. when i was a little kid me and my friends where out on the main square of the town to watch the run, and i allmost pissed myself when i could hear their bells ring from far away.
you hear kids crying, cowbells ringing and people screaming. it gets me in x-mas mood every year.
Hallo, ich haise Mark, Schon dich kennenzulernen
Gott ich habe es gehasst
Thank you for the good description. 👹
We give each other fruitcake. 😟
Man that really paints a picture doesn't it.
Over here only naughty spoiled kids cry at christmas. I much prefer yours.
Wow. Kinda weird seeing this documentary on this weird part of my childhood. I remember them both, St. Nikolaus/Krampus and the Perchtenlauf. Weird shit, but oddly fun. There's hot alcoholic beverages, there's food, there's laughter and stories... it was nice. Of course, sometimes the guys inside the Krampus suits would get a bit too drunk and either get really fucking violent or start a fight with regular guys who weren't dressed. Sometimes they even wacked the kids a bit too hard with their whips. I remember fucking around with one of them, calling him names or something, and yelling something along the lines of "You're just a guy in a costume! Come on! Wack me!". He did a little growl and tried to scare me. I threw a snowball at him. He ran over and wacked me with his whip-stick. End of story.
Kinda sad to see this tradition die. I live in a small-ish (3000 people) town in Austria, and in recent years it seems as though the tradition slowly but surely is dying. Maybe I'm too old to notice and I'm not there when it happens, but I think this really is something the WW2 generation brought with them and now that they're gone, the tradition went with them. As always, it will surely make a big comeback once guys like me become all nostalgic and revitalize it by dressing up ourselves lol.
As far as I know many of them stopped because they are not allowed to get drunk anymore and they don't get away with injuring people.
I doubt that most of them care much about the tradition they do it for fun and now that they tamed it down its not as fun as it used to be for them.
Des wea so mei Theorie
Bring back getting drunk and whacking kids!!
Interesting to see that furrys have been around for much longer than I thought
And throwing people into the fire pits of the otherkin. Yaaaaaaas!
🤣🤣🤣
I know, I'm answering a 3 years old comment, but have you see Egyptian gods? Furries are everywhere
A bit early to tell without other episodes to compare to, but I'm liking this so far the animation bits every now and then is a nice touch.
Wow, I never realized the krampus had such a distinguished history. I've heard somewhere that krampuses are sometimes considered to be equivalents to Santa's elves, at least in terms of toy making and general management of annual holiday operations. They certainly do seem to get around a lot more than the elves do, at any rate.
They killed 🎅's elves and Saint Nick had enslaved them for what they had done. The elves are rumored to ended up in hell because they're not human. 👀
Krampus the rejected raindeer
That was the best researched video about the Krampus I've seen so far. Well done, sir!
In my austrian village are many perchten and every year on december they either go out or perform a show in which they scare the people and beat them "softly". Its pretty cool tho.
Yeah where I lived it wasn't so softly lmao
I voted for Benjamin as best supporting character
i really like the presentation of these episodes. really hope you bring it back, in some form or another
Idk why, but that thumbnail's cool as shit
He should make a hurdy-gurdy album and use that as the cover
Dude, I am digging this new series!
Please keep making these videos, they're just too much fun!!!
The picture at 8.42/is from a different Tradition with a different background, called the wild hunt(Wilden Gjoad).
Not a horrible mistake but i thought i should point it out.
Benjamin is my new husbando
I think it's important to note that in Germany St. Nicolaus visits children on the 6th of december. He fills the boots of good children with sweets (nuts and oranges) or coal for the bad children.
Where I come from we don't have the Krampus but instead Knecht Ruprecht wo delivers the coal and for especially bad kids a whipping.
On the 24th of December we get visited by the spirit of baby christ to deliver presents under the tree (even tho some familys have started saying it's santa claus instead because of the mostly american media making him more present)
Krampus didn’t make the children in my home cry Nikolaus did because he had a moral high ground while Krampus was fun
I really love this wierd, unsettling kinda stuff. Keep up the high quality videos guys.
I just watched three of your vids in a row. Your voice and delivery style are professional, entertaining, and informative. Subbed
This is a great series, please keep making these
Always a pleasure seeing new content, keep it up!
These videos are my favorite. Please continue them!
Thank you, Benjamin.
I always like the last 40 seconds of this video with the little dancing and fighting Krampus's. So cute.
Oh man, I really liked this series! Hope to see more like it in the future
Love everything you put out homie. Keep em' coming!
The Krampuses are actually all the elves who wanted to be dentists after they grew up, beaten-down and quietly desperate
I think I should mention at this point through your back catalogue of videos that I the was brought here from the misfits podcast. I believe swaggersouls mentioned your Chris Chan video and I've been making my way through since then. Thanks for all the content!
I hope this series isn’t dead; this and Down the Rabbit Hole are so interesting. Really love it, and hope this continues.
Wished I'd caught this series earlier. Would love to see it continue!
Another excellent video. Very interesting stuff!
God damn that was a good intro. Keep up the great content dood.
Such a shame this series didn’t seem to take off.
I just discovered this series and I really hope you keep going with it. I would love to see Mothman, Quetzalcotl, chupacabra, the Thunderbird, the kraken, sasquatch, or even some newer ones like Slender.
Not sure if you plan to do more, but I just want to say I would love more Grimm Archives
I really like this series and can't wait to see, what is next :)
Hmm.. I don't think we have anything in Denmark like krampus, the closest thing I can think of, is the Julebuk(Yule Goat, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule_Goat).
Anyway awesome video, keep up the good work
@Designer Fetish er det er den :)
Måske er den tyske Krampus, som blev fordansket. :)
7:11
"Oh look, it's the Wolf of Ansbach!"
"Where?"
"Yes, supposedly."
Thank you for not being another "Chills", your voice is perfect. It's like listening to soft jazz music after being strapped down to a chair and forced to listen to Soulja boy full blast for 24 hours straight.
Fantastic work!!
i am from austria and i ve attended several perchentläufe , alrdy as a child- its mythical and beautiful and very real! - - this is the first (international) doc i saw about perchten/krampus since the hype began with the hollywood movie which didn't mess up the facts and handled the topic properly - well done!!
Very nice video, i always had font memories of this holiday. I've visited quite a few back when i lived on the countryside, one of which was kind of odd but a great ton of fun. The Krampus would chase the children (including me) across a large field. Dodging one after another and getting hit occasionally. Sounds bad but i enjoyed it a lot.
There's so much he could do with this series. The Wendigo, Bunyip, Black Shuck, the Beast of Gevaudan, the Mapinguari, Mothman, the Big Gray Man, the Mongolian Death Worm, anything!
Love your channel!
I avoided watching this until today. It's Christmas eve/very early Christmas morning. I need a little spookiness this Christmas.
Benjamin is an interesting character design I heavily enjoy it.
these are awesome keep up the good work
We got this kind of festival here in Italy too! Mostly in villages up in the Alps most close to Switzerland, but also in Veneto and Friuli Venezia-Giulia (makes sense since they were all areas deeply influenced by Germany and Austria and were under their control for a really long time!).
That slow clap was priceless.
dude, i'm about to finish watching your entire channel. IN ONE NIGHT O_O
I'm from Bavaria and every year the oldest students in my school would dress up as St. Nicholas, Angels and Krampus to visit the younger children in class. During breaks the Krampus (or Kramperl, as they are affectionatly called here) would roam the school halls armed with sticks and chains. Older children would provoke them or play a kinda violent version of tag. Nobody ever got seriously injured but bruises and the like were common.
Krampus: German Christmas devil furries
Austrian please
You need to continue this series >_
As well produced as ever
Too early. It's three months before Christmas.
3 months is plenty of time to prepare for Krampus.
Down the Rabbit Hole is great, but I freaking love the Grimm Archives. We need to learn about these myths and legends before they're forgotten.
Is this why (Saint) Niclas usually comes on dec. 6th? (in Germany)
(yes we celebrate it under two names on two dates xD)
Niclas with small gifts/sweets in socks or boots on 6th and Saint Claus on dec.24/25 with larger gifts and the usual decorated tree.
On Dec 24th we have the Christkindl (christmas child) which is some kind of baby jesus i think
@@lilhell2925 Christkind >>> Santa Claus
Several Christian holidays were purposefully set during Pagan holidays in an attempt to overshadow them. Like Easter for example, which was the holiday of fertility, hence the eggs and the bunnies.
I hope there's more of this series coming down the pipelines soon.
this series is awesome
I love this channel! ^_^
why did you stop doing grimm archives these are great. its also good to expand your channel to multiple series.
7:08
I could tell you a thing or two about the groping caused by churches.
I grew up with that stuff.
Imagine how terrified you are as a kid when they run after you and beat you. Depending on where you live they whip you hard enough to bleed
I love this......there has to be more!!!!!
Hey guys. I grew up in Bavaria (southern Germany) and northern Austria. What i was told as a child was that St. Niclas' "helper" was Knecht Ruprecht or Black Piet. He is sometimes shown a horned being or a man with blackened skin who either beats children or gives the cole (blackend skin). In northern europe he is sometimes shown as a man of african decent. I think its an odd mixture of pagan and christian iconographie and rasist mixtures which differs at pretty much every region.
Great video anyways, I didnt know much about the "Perchten" exept they fricken scared me as a child.
Can i just thankyou for this comment?
In Bulgaria there is a similar tradition but it's done in February. People dress in suits made of animal fur, put on masks and large bells and dance to ward off evil spirits
when you talked about the krampus as saint nicholas' helper, I couldn't stop but see the many connections krampus has to the Dutch "zwarte piet" (black pete). I'm fairly certain that they must have come from the german krampus, especially considering the two countries are so close to each other
I was reading all the comments above and every European country seems to have their own version or bastardization of Krampus and Saint Nick. Even The USA has a Saint Nick, though they celebrate him on the 25th, something many European (and even Asian) countries now do as well due to the efforts of Coca Cola. It seems that now with all of Oktober becoming spooky month we can safely call all of December Saint Nick or Christmas month. :D
QutieFoxx, Well, black Pete is also a servant of saint Nicholas, which is similar to the Krampus. They (traditionally) have dark skin, which fits with the Krampus, as they are also black. They, too, take kids with them in their bags when the kids are naughty, according to the great book that Saint Nicholas uses to keep track of the kids that are nice or naughty. So yeah, black Pete might be derived from a monster. Yay. Also, one of the images of saint Nicholas in the video depicts him with a red cape, a hat-thing, and a golden staff, so that's more shared history.
Are there going to be more Grimm Archives? I love them and also Down he Rabbit Hole. I would hate to see it end when it's just getting started :(
Just a little info:
In Austria Krampus Läufe are not confined to small villages. By now there are even Contests for who made the best costume and there are a lot of clubs which dress up as Krampus. All that is more common in the east part of Austria tho and more rare in the West part (where I live).
you should make more of these to add variety to the channel
I know that this content is really time consuming and I don't even know if you're still on good terms with the artist but boi I would die for more content. ;_______;
Thumbs up for keeping history alive!
cant wait for the next rabbit hole episode, you should do one on Ed Wood or the guy who made The Room
Hey Fredrik, theres legend in my home county in England of a Demon Dog called 'Black Shuck' I would love to hear a grimm archives on the beast if you were down to making one
england? you mean the city of england
England = country
London = city
my city is england
County = Part of a Country
Yes he can rap and no, he's not from Compton.
We call it Perchtenlauf not Krampuslauf
(Aaaand there recently were some problems with Perchten, something with violence against children and bystanders)
The bit about the wrestling sounds like Christmas Pokemon battles
Love watching this high!
“This is my assistant, Benjamin. Or at least I think he’s my assistant, that wasn’t made clear.” Man sold his soul for all the human knowledge in the world.
This is kinda interesting to me. I grew up hearing tales of demons that would throw disobedient and naughty children in a sack and carry them away. This was obviously just a way to keeping kids in line but the similarities are very curious, especially considering I live half way around the world.
I want more of these :c
I have read somewhere that Krampus is derivative of the German word Krampen, which roughly translates into "The Claw." I also read that Krampus's mother in supposed Nordic Lore is Hela, the two faced goddess of the underworld. I find it interesting there is a half dead half alive imagery in Hela that coincides with with the half beautiful half ugly imagery that you brought up in here.
So was this series canceled? I'm new to your channel and find this more interesting than down the rabbit hole
Hey, are you ever gonna do anymore of these? Cause they're awesome
So any chance we could see this series return in the future? I'd love to see you cover creatures in general folklore.
My mother's side of the family is Austrian, had no idea Austrian's relationship with Krampus. That's awesome to learn.
More plz I love this
As an Austrian, thats pretty funny to watch but it was also interesting. But the Krampus runs are popular all over Austria and not just in isolated towns. As a kid i always got a kick out of those. They were pretty fun, especially when you provoked them, throw snowballs at them and run away, those were the days. lol Now for me its more like getting together with friends and family, and drink some mulled wine while you watch the Krampus roam around.^^
“Thank you Benjamin :D”
Idk how it is in other parts of austria but where i live there are like 2 versions of the Krampuslauf.
The 1. one is the family friendly one were they come to your house and yu get little presents like sweets. (Or if yu are spoiled things like pyjamas or toys. It's like a little christmas in some familys)
The 2. is the version a LOT of people are into. Those are pretty wild but are only practicd on the townsquare or a other big open erea.Those are really big social events were a lot of young adults also get drunk and stuff (As yu may know yu can drink beer and light alkohol at the age of 16 in Austria and Germany)
It's like a really big party to be honest ... a party yur parents approve of
Like i was at my first wild Krampuslauf when i was 13 and my parents even encouraged me to do so cause it's a tradition
(But i have to say that there is also a LOT of security and the Krampuse must stay behind a security fence because 1. Drunk people and 2. Some of them easy get carried away. And it ain't funny when you get hit with a cowbell or a really big chain.
There's also a third one but that one is mostly compained with the second one. It's like a parade where they are on really cool cars they made and stuff like that.
Like idk how it is in a big city but I live in a pretty small village and we celebrate the Krampus like 3 days (If you don't count the Nikolaustag because that's a more wholesome day where you usually don't drink. It's also the day the 1. Version of the Krampuslauf happens)
Please excuse my spelling mystakes because as you may have discovered english isn't my mothertongue.
Perchta you’re doing amazing sweetie
Aaaaand subscribed
have you watched the Grimm show? Their Krampus versions was really close to the myth
"The groping hand of the church"
can you please do satyrs and faun? please.. I love to know more about them you do such a wonderful job. thank you...
There's not really that much to say about them, other than they're goat men who like to get drunk.
I believe in Krampus. To be fair I believe in Santa as well, and see Krampus as his assistant, the one that has the task of keeping the true spirit of the winter celebrations pure/not allowing people to ruin it with the wrong intentions that make them unhappy i.e over spending rather than partying etc. The winter festivities are intended to cheer our hearts through the darkest times yet Muggles do their best to ruin it with making themselves do that which taxes them and their bank accounts. Just spend the time looking for affordable gifts that may mean more. LOL. Plus dealing with brats is admirable because like don't be brats is a good thing. Rarely have I seen a bratty child end up a functional adult. So Go Krampus.
Bella L
The lengths some parents will go to to get their kids to behave...
Oh well, better than hearing them cry in supermarkets.
I love how Krampus looks...