Question Of The Day - Monday, December 24, 2018

[jcat]

I think a lot of the Santa stories from Europe were supposed to be scary, weren't they? There seems to have been a lot of beating bad children and stuffing them into sacks going on in that part of the world.

It wasn't Santa (Saint Nicholas) himself, though, but his sidekick.

Santa's evil sidekick? Who knew? | Reuters

In Germany, Santa’s Sidekick Is a Cloven-Hooved, Child-Whipping Demon | Smart News | Smithsonian