Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experience the thrilling Krampus parades in Austria's alpine villages, where demonic creatures run through the streets. The story ...

If you want to find out if you've been "naughty or nice" this year, some stomping devils may be able to tell you. In the weeks leading up to Christmas each year, parades are held throughout many of ...

While good little boys and girls in America are preparing for St. Nick's Dec. 25 flyby, children in Austria are probably running for their lives because of Santa's not-so-jolly Christmas companion.

While many people kick off the Christmas season by decking the halls, people in Austria have a more sinister way of getting into the holiday spirit. That's because the residents in some Austrian ...

With traditional masked processions, this ominous ‘half-goat, half-demon’ creature visits naughty children in central Europe at Christmas. AP As clanging chains and pounding metal drums fill the ...

What better way to celebrate the holiday season than with a parade? What I mean is, a parade honoring Santa’s long-tongued beast buddy who gobbles up all the really bad children? The Krampus is a ...

Don't be scared of our creepy Christmas legend, authorities in Austria are telling refugees. Officials in the Austrian village of Virgen are worried its traditional festival of Christmas Devils where ...

Police record rising violence and drunkenness in relation to traditional folkloric festivities Goat-horned half-demons with scraggy coats of fur, lolling tongues and threatening bundles of birch ...

In Austria, the approach of the Christmas season is heralded each year by a pair of advance agents who make the rounds of hearths and homes on the eve of Dec. 6 to determine which children are ...

As clanging chains and pounding metal drums fill the snow-covered streets of Austria, the whispers spread among children, “Watch out, Krampus is about.” Naughty children in the U.S. may dread a lump ...