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The Krampus and the old, dark christmas : roots and rebirth of the folkloric devil / by Al Ridenour.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ridenour, Al, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christmas in art.
- Demonology in art.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (265 pages) : color illustrations, photographs
- Place of Publication:
- Port Townsend, Washington : Feral House, 2016.
- Summary:
- The Krampus, a folkloric devil associated with St. Nicholas in Alpine Austria and Germany, has been embraced by the American counterculture and is lately skewing mainstream. The new Christmas he seems to embody is ironically closer to an ancient understanding of the holiday as a perilous, haunted season. In the Krampus' world, witches rule Christmas, and saints can sometimes kill.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2016).
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781627310413
- 162731041X
- OCLC:
- 957125971
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