In Austria, naughty children don’t get coal — they get beaten by a goat-horned demon who might drown them in a river.
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Black Peter: The Christmas Demon That Makes Krampus Look Friendly
While Santa delivers presents to good children in Belgium and Holland, his demonic helper Black Peter stuffs the naughty ones into a sack full of hungry rats, drags them back to his coal mine on a cart pulled by plague-ridden undead rams, and forces them to dig coal forever — or until he gets hungry enough to eat them.
Hans Trapp: Excommunicated, Exiled, and Insane. Now He Hunts Naughty Children at Christmas
In the 15th century, a wealthy man was excommunicated by the Pope, driven mad in exile, and killed by a bolt of lightning just as he was about to taste human flesh — now he rides with Santa every Christmas, drooling over the naughty children on the list.