Let me just say I’m really happy with the videos I got this year! The Perchtenlauf in my village, 2024. Amazing as always ❤️
seen from China
seen from Yemen
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Germany
seen from India

seen from United Kingdom

seen from Switzerland
seen from India

seen from United States

seen from United Kingdom

seen from Canada

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from China
seen from Canada
seen from Hong Kong SAR China
seen from Switzerland
seen from Switzerland

seen from United States
seen from United Kingdom
Let me just say I’m really happy with the videos I got this year! The Perchtenlauf in my village, 2024. Amazing as always ❤️

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
It is once again the season to remind/tell people that the devil-looking furry creatures with horns running around in Austria/the Alps are NOT Krampus, but Perchten! Similar look, but NOT the same! thanks
please stop calling them 'Krampus parade' it is a 'Perchtenlauf' aka 'Perchten Run'! NOT a parade! it is there to scare away evil spirits, thanks!
My Personal Guide to Works pertaining to German, Bavarian, and Alpine Folk Magick
This is not an exhaustive list, just a list of sources that inform my practice. Readers will benefit from being able to read German (and sometimes Bavarian/Boarisch German).
Not all works are specific/exclusive to these folk practices and may include other traditions in addition.
I will be updating this list as I recall or find works to add to it. It is not alphabetized or organized in any specific way. If you’d like to recommend a title for this list, let me know!
Additionally, I cannot speak or vouch for any of the views or opinions of the authors. Some of these sources are certainly outdated and could potentially contain content that is offensive or bigoted, which is not something I endorse. Finally, there are some sources that are of debatable historical accuracy, so take them with a grain of salt.
Books
Pow-Wows or Long Lost Friend, John George Hohman
The Secret History of Christmas Baking by Linda Raedisch
The Old Magic of Christmas by Linda Raedisch
Night of the Witches by Linda Raedisch (a great resource for Walpurgisnacht)
Mountain Magic: Celtic Shamanism in the Austrian Alps by Christian Brunner
Alpine Magic by Christian Brunner
Pagan Christmas by Christian Rätsch and Claudia Müller-Ebeling
Göttin Holle by Gunivortus Goos (also available in English)
Hausgeister! by Janin Pisarek, Florian Schäfer, and Hannah Gritsch
Queens of the Wild by Ronald Hutton
Witchcraft and the Shamanic Journey Kenneth Johnson
Niederbayerische Sagen by Michael Waltinger
Witchcraft Medicine by Wolf-Dieter Storl, Christian Rätsch, Claudia Müller-Ebeling (available in both English and German)
Der Heilige Hain by Christian Rätsch
Von Sonnwend bis Rauhnacht by Valentin Kirschgruber
Witches and Pagans: Women in European Folk Religion, 700-1100 by Max Dashu
Spirit Beings in European Folklore 2 by Benjamin Adamah (I encourage you to read their sources as well, it’s important to find primary sources)
Deutsche Mythologie by Jacob Grimm (English as “Teutonic Mythology”) Please take Jacob Grimm with a grain of salt.
Handwörterbuch des deutschen Aberglaubens (There’s a lot of caveats to this, as it is highly outdated, but it is still a handy resource for reference. HOWEVER, good luck finding it. You might find some volumes available online but there are very few complete reprints of this encyclopedia, at least that are affordable.)
Tiefe Wälder, dunkle Legenden by Josef Probst
Malleus Maleficarum by Heinrich Kramer (This is basically a 15th century manual to “witch hunting” and contains bigotry and a lot of factual inaccuracies. However, it has some content that can provide some insight into folk magic and superstition of the time. It is very violent and explains the torture process of those accused of witchcraft, so be warned)
Volksmedizinische Botanik der Germanen by Max Höfler
Trutmezzer by Frater Acher (Three Hands Press)
The Black Raven: A Study in the Folk Necromancy of Early Modern Germany by Alexander Cummins and Brian Johnson
Speculum Terræ: A Magical Earth-Mirror from the 17th Century by Frater Acher
The Language of the Corpse: The Power of the Cadaver in Germanic and Icelandic Sorcery by Cody Dickerson
The Krampus and the Old, Dark Christmas: Roots and Rebirth of the Folkloric Devil by Al Ridenour
Occult Germany by Christopher McIntosh
Journals and Scholarly Articles
Holda: Between Folklore and Linguistics by Thomas Leek
Perchten and Krampusse: Living Mask Traditions in Austria and Bavaria by Molly Carter
Divination: Mother Holle as Goddess of Seerdom by Ullrich R. Kleinhempel
Percht und Krampus Felix and Ulrich Müller
The Distribution of The Legends of Frau Holle, Frau Percht, and Related Figures by Erika Timm
Perchta the Belly-Slitter and Her Kin: A View of Some Traditional Threatening Figures, Threats and Punishments by John B. Smith
Holle's Cry: Unearthing a Birth Goddess in a German Jewish Naming Ceremony by Jill Hammer
Zentralblatt für Okkultismus: German journal of the occult with published periodicals from 1907-1933. Thank you to the IAPSOP for preserving and sharing these volumes. They also have other German occult and spiritual works of interest.
Content Creators
Ella Harrison
The Witches’ Cookery
De Spökenkyker: A great resource for Silesian-German folk practice!
-Lily Of The Valley
Cat's Chimerical Creations: What It Made: Ty Beanie Babies Pounce the Cat 001
Pounce the Cat was used to make Bronx Brooklyn Pretty Trier the Tatzelwurm plushie:
His body was used to make Mirrors the Two Head Chupacabra plushie:
tip jar

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch • No registration required • HD streaming
the Winter Ones: Folkloric Figures of Winter; part 2
by Keziah Zibelmann
Winter, so commonly known by magical practitioners as the dark half of the year, is the backdrop of many traditions, folktales, and superstitions. A season of uncertainty, of difficult weather, of illness, of hardship; but also a season of magic, blessings, and togetherness, winter is a time of duality, and the many figures associated with winter reflect that — with gift bringers, home protectors, and helpful hands, as well as extreme disciplinarians, agents of retribution, and horrifying haunters.
Many such figures were covered in my piece the Winter Ones: Folklorlic Figures of Winter, Christmas, and Yule (2024) — a whopping twelve personalities, not counting all of the individual Yule Lads I covered. Still, there really is never an end to the unique and interesting characters scattered throughout the winter folklore around the world, such as the few characters featured in this year's addition to this winter series. For your reading pleasure, I now bring you the tales of a brutal whipper, pickled children, dancing bulls, bringers of luck, and banishers of evil.
Père Fouettard
(French, Belgian, and Swiss folklore)
Hi~ good morning, afternoon, evening or night.
Hope you are having a wonderful day and time. So, in truth I just binge read your krampus serie, and I got a crazy idea, I don't know if you will be willing to write it, it would be a very appreciated and marvelous Christmas gift.
How about a girl in a town that many call her "Frau Perchta" and treat her like a specter in public and general.
* Frau Perchta have dual Nature; beautiful, white robbed young maiden (she is pale and young woman, can be considered cute); the other part haggard, grotesque, old crock, wrinkled face, iron nose, tattered garnets (she use a mask to protect her face from the snow while riding her sledge, use rags as external clothes since she deals with beast, beast man's, monster and so on so she need protection and since she is alone she can do heavy lifting and deal and manage her two reindeers). She roams through the 12 days of Christmas (she is a healer/doctor/ or vet, that roams country side healing requests) judge children and servants, as reward she gives silver coin or pail, and as punishment she open guts, remove organs and stuff with hay, garbage and rock before closing them back (she is a surgeon and help births) have unusual long feet (she wears men size in shoes and is a little self conscious of it). So on Christmas even if she wants to have dinner and celebrate she ends up being the roaming healer many call but rejected guess in public.
How can a krampus be inserted here? She healed one or maybe in her working disguise she give a gift already expecting a rejection but this beast man or krampus accepted instead.
Is it possible or is it to much?
Pd. Merry Christmas and happy new year xD
Hello, friend! Merry Christmas and happy new year! ❤️ Thank you for reading and for your request.
I love your ideas and the pairing of Frau Perchta x Krampus. I really think you should consider writing this yourself. You have a strong vision. Beautiful job so far.
It's too much for me to write, but I made a list of scenes you could use to tell the story. ❄️
p.s. if anyone else wants to write this, please comment
This is a Schnabelperchten, an entity local to the Rauris Valley in Austria. They’re similar to Perchten, serving as motivators for good behavior. In the Schnabelperchten’s case, they come to check you’ve kept your home tidy. If it’s not, they have huge shears to enact their punishment and cut open your stomach to ‘clean’ you out! ✂️🧹💨
.