Today, I learned of the mythological creature called Krampus. Apparantly, Krampus pays his visit to you on December 5th. Beating naughty children and carting off the naughtiest children to his lair where he will drown or eat them or send them to Hell. This idea seems like it would be much more effective than Elf on the Shelf. Sure it might give them nightmares, but there's nothing naughtier than waking up mommy and daddy when they are sleeping so keep those night terrors to yourselves, kiddos.
More importantly, with Krampus comes Krampuslauf - a party where guests come dressed as Krampus. According to Wikipedia - which as we all know speaks nothing but the truth so help them God - the Krampus is fueled by alcohol and the Krampus' drink of choice is schnapps. Now, I'm not a huge fan of schnapps, but I do enjoy a good adult party theme centered around costumes and alcohol. Not everyone is on board with Halloween throughout the year.
To learn more about this heart warming...or is that heart eating character check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus. I haven't found his Facebook page yet.
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