The Real War on Christmas

The origin story of hans tropp is based on a real person. He was an actual german knight by the name of hans von trothe whose life story has a lot of eerye parallels to this one. But while he might have angered the church by getting into a nasty property dispute with a local abbot, its med that he never really cooked children over a spit. Still, it makes for a good story and a dark sort of christmas fun. And there are probably a hundred more stories just like those scattered all over the world,. unusual, rare and sometimes creepy traditions that are linked, for better or for worse, to the holiday.