Krampus is Coming to Town
Two years ago, I gave a talk at Skepticon* called How to Ruin Christmas for Nearly Everyone, in which I argued (in part) that it’s fun and beneficial to lie to children, particularly concerning Santa. I told the audience about an even better myth: Krampus, an evil demon said to stuff little children in a sack and drag them to hell around Christmastime. I’m very excited to announce that you can now incorporate Krampus into your holiday traditions with Krampus stockings and Krampus gift wrap from Skeptical Robot! Plus, we have new holiday cards:
And don’t forget that our Merry Squidmas cards go nicely with these Happy Monkey cards:
Remember: he knows when you’ve been bad or good, so be good, or be dragged to hell in a sack.
*Join me, and a bunch of other Skepchick contributors, at Skepticon 5 this weekend!
Is it just me, or is Squidmas getting too commercial?
You should do a Happy Monkey button, I’m thinking it would sell well :)
While searching for krampus decorations, I found this secular, family-friendly event in Philadelphia: http://krampuslaufphiladelphia.com
Wish I still lived in Allentown now.
Hi Jessica. Todd from the Tally Atheists here. Just in case you hadn’t heard, yet, proposed Amendments 6 and 8 were both defeated!
If we don’t lie to children how will they learn to deal with exo/esoteric thinking?
So is Squidmas PZ Meyer’s favorite holiday?
Love the stocking, too. Be funny to freak out my cousin with that.
Shit, just realized I misspelled PZ Myer’s name.
Sorry!
Ha!
PZ Myers’ name is used to being abused by now. You managed to misspell it two different ways in the space of a few minutes. :)
Rebecca Watson,
Nice Pictures! That stocking is kind of funny.
Awe. Some. I might just have to forgo my trademark brown paper and string wrapping for once.
I think that this (the kernel of the Krampus ideal) was already covered by the creepy-assed, “Elf-on-a-Shelf” sold at Hallmark. The main-stream retailers may have beat you to the “creep the sh– out of kids for December to keep them in line”-thing.