The Krampus Comes
Celebrating Christmas Dysfunction.
In Austria and across the German-speaking Alpine region, the demonic Krampus character is a crucial part of the holiday season. For some people the holidays are scary enough without throwing a demon beast with a penchant for physical assault into the mix. But if you’re the kind of person who goes to extra-scary haunted houses at Halloween, take heart: That terror doesn’t have to stop just because we’ve entered a season of togetherness and joy.
www.mentalfloss.com/article/71999/9-facts-about-krampus-s...
Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0 provided my Krampus, here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-11-24_Sundays_Medal_...
Thanks also to NASA for the texture I borrowed from Astronomy Picture of the Day here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221130.html, Credit & Copyright: Anthony Quintile
Background/foreground is my own work, and additional processing with ParticleShop and Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Entered in Winter Mystery Challenge, here:
www.flickr.com/groups/challenges_community_group/discuss/...
The Krampus Comes
Celebrating Christmas Dysfunction.
In Austria and across the German-speaking Alpine region, the demonic Krampus character is a crucial part of the holiday season. For some people the holidays are scary enough without throwing a demon beast with a penchant for physical assault into the mix. But if you’re the kind of person who goes to extra-scary haunted houses at Halloween, take heart: That terror doesn’t have to stop just because we’ve entered a season of togetherness and joy.
www.mentalfloss.com/article/71999/9-facts-about-krampus-s...
Sandro Halank, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0 provided my Krampus, here: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2019-11-24_Sundays_Medal_...
Thanks also to NASA for the texture I borrowed from Astronomy Picture of the Day here: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221130.html, Credit & Copyright: Anthony Quintile
Background/foreground is my own work, and additional processing with ParticleShop and Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Entered in Winter Mystery Challenge, here:
www.flickr.com/groups/challenges_community_group/discuss/...