T-Rex, Krampus & I – visit daughter Laura
Laura Malcolm you tube
Specifically https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p93IWVOzZ5k&t=38s&has_verified=1
In order to view, you may have to prove your age – because of possibly inappropriate content. (If you anticipate actual inappropriate content, you will be disappointed.)
Lord God I look, okay am, old and drunk, no really not drunk – evidently that’s how I comport myself. Tho there were times I wondered how my sister got in there and took my place…(she’s even older, but less drunk).
CHEERS!
12/22/2020 @ 10:52 am
Twenty-nine holidays from various traditions fall between the last week of November and middle of January.
Owing to the genius of St. Paul, the architect of the Catholic (Universal) Church, many, but by no means all, of these are ancient holidays which were Christianized.
Yule, also known as the 12 days of Christmas, can begin between December 20 and December 23, depending on the year in the Gregorian calendar. In Nordic and Germanic countries, it begins on the day of the Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year, usually December 21st. Yule is celebrated for another 12 days though, through January 1st, at the shortest or until the 12th of January (“twelve days” or “until the 12th day”).
Yule celebrations were originally referred to as “Drinking Yules”, with an emphasis on drinking as an important part of the celebration.
The Yule goat brings gifts, especially gifts for good children.
The Krampus, or Christmas Devil, a Germanic demon, comes to punish bad seeds and naughty children.
Krampusnacht is an annual festival celebrated through the Alpine region from Austria and Northern Italy, to Solvenia, Hungary, Germany and the Czech Republic. Like the Yule goat, the Krampus is horned and may wear cowbells on his backside reminiscent of Santa’s sleigh.
The Krampus arrives on December 5th well before Christmas. St. Nikolaus also arrives this night.
The Krampus carries a birch bundle to beat naughty children before stuffing them into his basket and carry them off.
The Church tried to ban Krampusnacht as far back as the 12th century, but with little success.
By the 19th century, Father Christmas (Santa Claus) was arriving on a Yule Goat which eventually became twelve reindeer one for each day of the twelve days of Christmas which is often refer to as ‘The Yuletide’ season.
Myriad, ‘old and drunk’ is mildly redundant….
Being drunk with age and experience can be confused with senility…
Happy Holidays to you and yours…
Thanks for sharing your celebration.
Be well…
12/23/2020 @ 1:50 pm
Note:
The ‘twelve reindeer’ became 8 in Clement C. Moore’s 1822 poem, “A Visit From St. Nicholas”.
12/24/2020 @ 12:44 pm
Here’s an interesting article on Krampus – parades becoming a thing in the USA, looks like.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-truth-about-krampus?utm_medium=atlas-page&utm_source=facebook.com&fbclid=IwAR10Bjxm2fYJhhpPGVrZGImC6g_-QznNW_-rfmd1bL2PL40u0rHlhB6tf5U
12/24/2020 @ 12:54 pm
Here’s my take on Krampus
https://ginaellisca.wixsite.com/mysite-1
HO HO HO
Maybe there are animal ghosts too.
Or at least an echo of guilt in our collective consciousness.
Look at all those other similar figures, memories of old Europe resurrected in the dead of winter. Sometimes the horns are those of the deer we hunted; sometimes the costumes are of bears we killed into near extinction. The black dog, spirit of the wolf, haunts us still.
And the mari lywd of Wales, reminding us of the millions of horses we worked to death, rode into battle, beat mercilessly.
Once we lived with our animals, raised them and killed them, witness to their innocence and their suffering. A lot of it was necessary for us tropical apes to survive in northern winters. Yet deep in the darkness of our souls, we must have dreaded their revenge.
Nowadays winter is no longer fearsome. We have reproduced our tropical origins in our comfy well-appointed artificial caves. We buy our meat in plastic-wrapped portions in antiseptic stores – no screams, no blood. We live in luxury unimaginable to kings and emperors of old. And now Krampus and all his legion are amusements.
But the great plundering of nature, now so impersonal and efficient, gonna get us. The fire next time.
Krampus is portrayed as a demonic
figure, but usually with an animal
skull-face, always bull or goat horns,
and with him the homey sound of
cowbells becomes somehow sinister.
12/22/2020 @ 10:58 am
BTW,
I didn’t see cowbell on anyone’s backside in your video…
Just sayin’…
12/22/2020 @ 12:15 pm
0Stradamus considered that in 2020 a new era will begin, both in terms of the calendar, but also realistically.
*I called room service and she said, CHECK THE CAPS KEY
Tempted to paste Nostradamus.
N melded to Z~~~spun off screen~~~sleep before travel, no?
12/24/2020 @ 12:55 pm
Hah! But there WAS a backside partially visible in the video.
12/24/2020 @ 2:43 pm
That’s precisely what I was talking about…
12/22/2020 @ 6:28 pm
Well this was fun! Your daughter is a delight.
12/22/2020 @ 6:29 pm
And it was lovely to see you and hear your voice!
12/25/2020 @ 11:23 am
What I said on Ron’s post – as I recall there was some little guy traveling with Nicholas but I don’t remember anything about him.
In my family we did St. Nicholas’ eve – December 5. Dad would go around outside banging on windows and eventually throw a bag of candy in the front door. We knew it was really St. Nicholas because some of the banging was on upstairs windows and it took magic or a saint or something to do that. That was the start of Christmas. The end was January 6, the Epiphany, when we took down the tree.
Mom was half Slovenian so it probably was a Christianization (or Germanization because that’s how she identified) of the Krampus story.
12/26/2020 @ 3:50 pm
Myriad as certain as I am that it would be a treat to see you drunk, youtube says I must sign up for an account, and I am in the Twitter/Youtube/Facebook Resistance, so my eyeballs are barred.
One of my buddies is a mask-maker, also a Wiccan (everybody in Salem is Wiccan to a degree). His Krampius masks are something else. He also paints paintings of Krampus and I wish I could embed one here, they are so amazing.
Jonna, your dad banged the upstairs windows from the inside or the outside? if outside, that would scare the beejez out of me!
12/26/2020 @ 6:18 pm
Can’t view me drunk? Your loss, my gain.
Wish I could see those Krampus masks & paintings…
12/26/2020 @ 6:40 pm
From the outside, of course.
11/26/2021 @ 10:34 am
GLORIA zoomed me (pontificating bamboo cigarette holder⁉) puff-puff really‼
“Galley‼: Print Myriad’s:
‘T-Rex, Krampus & I – visit daughter Laura’ … for all of OUR Christmas cards … Tramp: don’t lick one stamp!”
[…been that way for all my time…]