Two minutes of research shows that this garbage fake news is total BS and you should be ashamed of yourself for posting it.
1. It’s Italy, not Austria.
2. It’s a strange local Italian tradition where young Italians dress up like Krampus and run around hitting random people with bendable branches.
Here’s a sample from 2010:
“It’s Italy, not Austria.”
Did you have your speaker on? I’m pretty sure they were speaking German.
“Two minutes of research shows that this garbage fake news is total BS and you should be ashamed of yourself for posting it.”
And four minutes of research shows you really don’t know what you’re talking about.
“1. It’s Italy, not Austria.”
Actually, if you did more research, you would know that it is Sout Tyrol which was part of Austria until WWI. It is still a German speaking area, but has - for the last 100 years - belonged to Italy against the will of the South Tyrolese.
“2. It’s a strange local Italian tradition where young Italians dress up like Krampus and run around hitting random people with bendable branches.”
It’s an AUSTRIAN-BAVARIAN custom/tradition. It is NOT practiced by Italians. Krampus is a German name, not Italian. You proved this is Austrian and not Italian with the video you posted.
“Here’s a sample from 2010:”
The video text is in SOUTH TYROLESE and NOT ITALIAN. Everyone in the video is speaking the South Tyrloese dialect of German. Hence, they use a South Tyrolese version of Teuffel Tag (devil’s day) in the opening credits or whatever you want to call the opening text.
All the people attacked by the Krampus in the video posted with the thread were black. They were not South Tyrolese. The Krampus also kicked one man they swatted who went to the ground. I think that shows this was about real animus and not swatting people as mere Teuffel Tag high jinks.
Thanks Red Badger for posting this.
Huh? In winter, from December to February, sometimes snow can fall, particularly in the west (Piedmont, Lombardy) and at the foot of the Apennines (in cities located along the Via Emilia, from Piacenza to Bologna), where 20 to 40 cm (8 to 16 in) of snow fall per year...The bS you posted...Can’t read Italian?