https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/05/5th-december-krampus/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:33:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2011/12/05/5th-december-krampus/#comment-32018 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:33:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=50302#comment-32018 What a creepy creature! In the Netherlands we celebrate the feast of Saint Nicholas (Sinterklaas) today, but here he is accompanied by a bunch of Moors (Zwarte Piet) in colourful costumes. There are some similarities; Zwarte Piet used to have a rod to punish naughty children and the very bad ones he would carry off in his sack to Spain (not Hell, luckily, and seeing a bit of the world never seemed so bad a punishment to me…)

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