Krampus: The Goat Knows What You Did
Ancient History Fangirl
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Perkta Letero, a Domestic Goddess
During the 12 days of christmas or ull perta would visit the homes around the countryside. If your house was amiss, if you ate anything other than the right food on perta's feast day, well then you got a visit from ugly perkta. The whole domestic goddess thing came later, when christianity began to creep into these traditions. So my guess is that these perta feast days are about the church overlapping and having more control over what you did and didn't do.
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