Actually, to make everything a bit more disturbing, please let me show you what we do in my village instead of the whole Krampus thing. Interestingly, every other village in my area does the usual thing, which Tender already showed, but just we do something different, already on December 5th, and not 6th as it's usual everywhere else.
Instead of the
Krampus accompanying the Nikolaus, we have the
Tuifl, which is a dialect word for "devil". They wear nothing but red trousers, smear soot over their whole body, and run around that way all throughout the village, the whole afternoon, smearing and smacking everyone that else goes through the village. A few of them follow St. Nikolaus to the houses of children, and then either wait outside, or are allowed in, in turning smearing everything with soot.
It looks like this:
Yes, Austria is indeed a disturbing place
