Not So Merry Christmas
We all think of Christmas as a joyous and merry occasion where you get gifts from a fat man dressed in red known as Santa. We cut cakes ,put up a Christmas tree, etc etc. One thing that we have all heard about is the naughty list as that it was the main tool used by our parents to blackmail us into doing chores like cleaning up the room. Well the normal perception of people(especially kids) is that if you're on the naughty list then you won't get a gift. This, however, is not the case in Finland. In Finland being in the naughty list means being tortured by Santa, or as the Finnish prefer to call him , Krampus .There are 2 entities who take the spotlight during Christmas in Finland, namely, Krampus( The Santa that punishes kids in the naughty list) and Joulupukki (The Santa that does standard Santa stuff). I'll be talking about Krampus today as he is infinitely more interesting than Joulupukki. Krampus is basically the total opposite of how we im...