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Atlas NoctisA nocturnal atlas of folklore

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Austria

One entry in one subarea: 1 at grade B. The points fall where the entry was collected, not where the story is set. Hover a point to see the subarea, click it to open the entry.

The Salzburg region, Tyrol and East Tyrol, Styria, Upper Carinthia and eastern Bavaria (the Berchtesgadener Land); a recent offshoot in South Tyrol, where the older local name survives as Klaubauf in the Vinschgau
BKrampusAustria — The Salzburg region, Tyrol and East Tyrol, Styria, Upper Carinthia and eastern Bavaria (the Berchtesgadener Land); a recent offshoot in South Tyrol, where the older local name survives as Klaubauf in the Vinschgau

The entries, in brief

The folklore of Austria documented in this atlas: Krampus. Every entry is placed on the map at the point where it was collected or attested — not where the story is set — and carries its declared grade of documentation (1 at grade B), with the sources it comes from.

Krampus B
A horned, hairy male figure who accompanies St Nicholas on his round of the houses on the evening of 5 December and on the 6th. Archival and nineteenth-century descriptions give him goatskins, a horned wooden mask, a protruding…

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