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Saint Nicholas Day - Little Greeny in hell?!
On December 6th it is Saint Nicholas Day. Where I come from Saint Nicholas visits children at home (and Kindergarden) to give a small bag to each child containing nuts, fruits and chocolate. In Kindergarden the bag contains toothpaste, too, because dental hygiene is important. Well, the toothpaste usually has strawberry taste so most children just eat it. ^^;
I ate it each year. xD
When Nicholas visits children at home it is a paid person in a costume. Parents always open the door, when Nicholas arrives, because they give him a sheet of paper that tells the person, if the children behaved good or bad in the past year.
Nicholas hides that sheet in a big book so children can not tell how he knows about their behaviour.
But Nicholas isn't alone. He is accompanied by a demon whose job is taking bad children with him to hell. The demon is kinda the same as Krampus, but depening on the area he has different names and looks in Germany.
I always disliked Nicholas Day, because my parents seemed to have "perception problems". I have two older siblings and they did not behave better or worse than me.
But each year Saint Nicholas praised my siblings for their good behaviour and when he talked to me he was only criticizing. He counted down a list of the bad things I did during the year. After he was done with his grumbling he told Krampus to take me to hell so the actor in the demon costume grabbed one of my legs while I tried to break free.
It sounds kinda horrible and in my memory it was horrible. Well at last Saint Nicholas had mercy and told me to behave better next year.
And then I got the same bag with few presents like my siblings.
Imagine a stranger visits you at home once a year, criticizes you and to get a bag with nuts and fruits you must face a demon and avoid being dragged to hell. What a lovely day for children. xD
I remember one day I came home from school and my mother told me, that Saint Nicholas won't be able to come, because he had a lethal accident at work. He was squashed by a crawler excavator. And my brain thought two things at the same time: That's horrible! - and - hurray, I won't be taken to hell this year.
While growing older I found out that Nicholas was just an actor (and I felt very sorry about his accident) and he got the list from my parents. Thinking about it makes me still angry. Actually my mother did a (very) good job with raising me and my siblings, so I guess that my father wrote the list - each year. -_-
Well as an adult I left church for several reasons. But in general children should not be convinced to behave good, because they are scared with eternal damnation in the fires of hell for example. Angst (fear) should never be used to take control over people.
I also wonder who Krampus originally was before he was transformed into a demon by Christians.
If I had children Krampus would bring presents as a nice guy. No hell. No criticism.
Just a friendly creature with nuts for daddy. ;3
Humble present
Since it is December 6th I drew some edits of older artworks for you as a humble little, present (and I will use them downscaled to advertize on Twitter).
And since you read the journal until the end - have a look at the folder containing the artworks above in 4k with and without the hats.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/sze6lq8d396l1ou/FFXV_santa_hats.zip/file
Thanks for reading.
PS: Do you know Nicholas Day? Did you behave good or bad? ;) Tell me in the comments.
Greeneyedwolfking
2020-12-30 17:40:54 +0000 UTCJoseph
2020-12-29 20:25:42 +0000 UTCGreeneyedwolfking
2020-12-07 16:10:35 +0000 UTCDaniel
2020-12-07 03:00:54 +0000 UTC