ladykrampus reblogged
Remember the Perchta we posted about a few days ago? Folkloric cousin to the Krampus and fellow gruesome punisher of naughty children. Well here’s one of them!
Actually, this is only a plain old human being wearing an awesome Perchta costume and participating in a 1500 year-old pagan ritual to disperse the ghosts of winter. He was recently photographed by Dominic Ebenbichler during the Perchten festival in the western Austrian village of Heitwerwang.
[via Telegraph.co.uk]
Source: telegraph.co.uk