krampus

Let's spend a little time talking about the Anti-Claus.

The Krampus is actually the anti-Santa Claus. Where Santa has toys for the good girls and boys, the Krampus carries a bag of switches and punishes the bad kids.

Santa used to have a "partner in crime".  Somewhere along the line he got dumped, except in some Eastern European countries. His name is Krampus and he chains up bad kids and whips them.  If you add that to the "no presents" thing, you have a pretty good threat to keep goods through Christmas.  More after the jump.