Episode 19. You’d better watch out, Krampus is coming to town…

Welcome to Episode 19 of the podcast – and the second international episode. 

In this Episode, The Boggart looks at the Alpine tradition of Krampus, the half-goat demon said to punish naughty children on the eve of the 5th December, and how the story has developed in time, becoming a political tool in the first half of the 20th century, and also how Krampus may have influenced the United States cryptid known as the Goatman…