The Krampus (Companions of Christmas)
$10.00
One of the SchweizerCraft "Companions of Christmas" series (#XmasF 04)
The Krampus was a rural giftgiver who would deliver presents to good Alpine children, but the naughty ones? Well, he'd stuff them into his basket and take them back to his lair, where they would be forced to spend the next year making toys for good kids.
They'd be released the following Christmas, but even so, yikes!
When word of this Santa Claus fellow started getting around, kids from this area, terrified of the Krampus, started writing Santa letters asking for his intercession, and Santa obliged. He and the Krampus had a rumble, and Santa successfully shackled the Krampus with the chains that had once held St. Paul of Tarsus.
Bound by the magic of this holy relic, the Krampus had to accompany Santa for the next few years, and in observing his captor came to see that his punitive approach to kids wasn't the best way to ensure their good behavior or long-term character betterment after all. Thus reformed of his kid-beating, kid stealing ways, Santa released him, though the Krampus asked to retain the chains so that they would always remind him of how NOT to help put right kids that are straying from the path of goodness, kindness, and charity, but to instead practice those tenets himself in order to best right wrong behavior.
He still has his avuncular sense of humor, and likes to put milder scares into wee ones, so expect to get a light whap with his bundle of switches, and a short ride around the room in his basket.
1/4” Baltic Birch, roughly 3.45” tall
This figure can be purchased individually here, or as part of the Closest Companions set, or with the 25-figure Advent Collection.
Figure comes with a 2.75 x 8.5” card telling his story. The card fits in the story shelf on the Santa’s Workshop DisPlayset.
