Nobody Knows Where This 16th Century Statue Of A Man Eating Babies Came From
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2022
- A strange child-eating statue stands in the center of the scenic Alpine city of Bern, Switzerland. Set between quaint sandstone buildings and the picturesque River Aare, the man in the statue stuffs a child into his gaping maw. He’s clearly ready to move on to more children once he’s finished his appetizer. Who is the mysterious child eater of Bern? He has been standing in Bern since the 1500s, creating a nearly 500-year-old mystery about the meaning of the statue. In Bern, they call him the Kindlifresser - literally “child eater.” He is also known as the ogre.
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I don’t know what’s funnier. The fact that nobody knows where it came from, or the fact that even though no one knows where it came from they still kept it up.
IDK, but it's so funny that the statue looks like Lord Farquaad from Shrek. And boy howdy, Lord Farquaad became a cannibal and let himself go!
At least its still there- leave it be- unlike in America where we like to take down statutes that upset us
@@cherylsmith4826 it’s not because they “upset us”, it’s because having monuments celebrating horrible people is weird. Germany doesn’t have nazi monuments everywhere, so why should America have statues of confederate and kkk leaders?
Its Scottish. Its an ancestor of Fat Bastard..." You keep the money. Im gonna eat yer baby. Baby, the other white meat..."😂😂😂
@@cherylsmith4826 we should have never made statues to traitors anyway. Their history should be taught in classrooms, but that upsets people, so it is not in some states.
"It might have darker implications."
Because the gruesome devouring of children isn't all that dark on its own.👍
In the end, Farquaad became a worse ogre than Shrek. LOL! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
It is if you're one of the children
Haha
You can always go darker 😈
Funny it's in Switzerland where the rich keep their money too
My speculative hypothesis is that this statue was most likely a typical Germanic deterrent symbol to prevent misconduct by children. The first thing that popped into my mind was "Struwwelpeter", the 19th-century book of horrors that scared German kids into behaving.
My mom was raised on that book. It's hilarious to hear her talk about it because she is horrified by anything remotely scary or violent but apparently nostalgia is immune. "Oh yeah, the kid whose thumbs got cut off! I remember that one."
I believe it's a democrat. Just guessing.😜
@@youknowme8578 no, it was always republicans
Fun fact: Most of the joyful fairy tales that we know tells a very dark story in their original form
@@markmuller7962, indeed. Some universities in the U.S. offer courses on this subject matter.
Wait, wait, maybe the guy is actually pulling toddlers OUT of his mouth.
I dunno, some of the babies in his hamper don't look too happy...
He'd also be grabbing them by their legs if that were the case.
yep. need more info...maybe a time-lapse before/after statue(s) in series..
cannot judge this one impartially.
😂 Probably not, but I like the way you think.
@@rustybarrel516 Thanks, Rusty ;)
@@planescaped I wouldn't be glad either, if someone just took me out of their mouth
My grandparents would tell us to behave and not go out after dark without an adult because the Stakini would get us. The Stakini is a half owl half man monster from the Seminole Nation folklore that would get children who disrespected their elders. It worked; I was so scared!!! So it’s probably the same logic…..
@@NubsWithGuns you don't know the grandparents lol
Judging someone because of a story they told a kid years ago is pretty unfair
It's a story
I grew up with the original Brother's Grimm tales and Wilhelm Busch
Look up Max & Moritz
I read those and had audio tapes of them as bedtime stories and I and everyone else exposed to it were fine
@@NubsWithGuns thats not about respect and rather survival
@@NubsWithGuns That's quite presumptuous of you
La Chosa, it's a owl banshee screaming thing in Tejano culture. I would never go out because of those stories.
Damn to my people, well my tribe specifically, the owl is a kaitiaki a guardian lol
I was just going with my original theory.
"You know what this area clearly needs a statue eating babies."-Mayor
LoL 💀 😆
City President: I said baby PEAS!!!
Little correction, we don't have a Mayor/Bürgrmeistr. We have a City President/Stadtpresidänt which sounds way cooler.
@@HoganTon that is cooler :) I have edited my comment
It looks like "Saturn Devouring His Son" painting
I agree. Saturn eating his son reminds me of Zeus's father eating his siblings, I think because I heard that greek mythology and Roman mythology are the same thing but different twists?
Yeah. Like “Kronos eating his young” by Goya. Greek version.
Different interpretation of Baal worship possibly?
@@tsuchigomori35 Saturn is the Roman version of Kronos
@@therealcollin1201 Kronos, zeus, Satan, time... they are all the same
We have legend about 'man eating children' too in our country, Indonesia. A lot of stories, actually. Folkstories. I think many tribes in Indonesia has legends about it.
The famous one from my childhood is Story of Ajisaka.
It's a story about a prince from India named Ajisaka who got lost in the sea, and his ship landed in Java island. He and his subordinates found a village near the beach but the villager being terrorized by a Rakshasha (can be means giant, or cannibal, or basically black magic practicioner for power) who ate babies. Ajisaka then help the villager. We don't have statue of Ajisaka but his name and his subordinates names is memorized as part of alphabet of ancient Java's alphabets (Hanacaraka).
I think it's interesting to think that Swiss is country sorrounding by mountains, because in most of our legends the rakshasha (man eating babies, cannibals, or dark mage) always suddenly coming from high mountains, caves, and deep forrest. Mountain, cave, and forrest in our folkstore seems somekind of vortex or portal to other dimensions, idk. Something like that.
I’m not reading all that congrats though or sorry that it happened
here in the us they still eatin' babies!
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. Mountains are always mysterious. Anything could live up there. Just like the depths of the ocean.
@@tonystarks5098 lol, it just local legends about Denawa or Rakshasha, basically giant demon or man eating baby or evil witcg cannibal from my country. I found interesting that so many countries and nations has similar folkstories. Hans and Gretel is from Swiss or German, btw? Dark mage or evil witch who practicing black magic in all around the world seems has similar habit eating babies
@@fingerzfrienemy2226 Hollywood? 😂
“No one knows where this statue came from”-explains who built it and when in the first two minutes.
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Here here
It's click bait it came from Hans, he said so himself in this video
I think everyone in the world can agree that they have their national versions of monster-eats-naughty kid nighttime stories.
This reminds me of a story with my spouse who grew up in Quebec. We were visiting and I saw many license plates and some government signs that had “I remember…” (or maybe “we remember”) in French on them. I asked my spouse what the phrase was meant to commemorate, and they thought a while and said…”Actually, I don’t know, I don’t think anyone really remembers.”
Oh man that's hilarious lol. This fountain is art though, it's often weird and only means something to the artist. I kinda doubt it's just one thing and the hat that they made jews wear looks absolutely nothing like this one.
My grandparents lived in Bern and they would always remind us of the kids of this fountain to keep us at bay
Same for me, traumatizing shit xD
We need more weird statues in our world
Yes.
We have a Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters and a Joe Biden does that count?
"a carved or *cast figure of a person or animal* , especially one that is life-size or larger." I highlighted animal as well, as Maxine has been acting like one lately.
@@tsadkiel2008 I'll gladly have a target to throw tomatoes at
I’d like to hear about the artwork found in John Podesta‘s home.
I was reminded of it as well
Absolutely based
Yes, perhaps not just a contemporary phenomenon.
"eating through the town's little league team" I was not expecting that line lmao
This is the best of best - the narrator's comments are priceless. Can't get enough of Nutty and Weird History - many thanks!!
As a native Swiss, who lived in Berne for 3 years and has relatives there, to be honest, I did not learn anything new from your video. But:
I am so happy, that you and the reach of your channel have produced a video about this curiosity of a fountain. I always go there and show guests this fountain when visiting Berne.
Thank you very much, great content as always!
As someone who would love to visit Sweden now that I know of this statue and the fact that there are others I've definitely decided to visit Berne.
Oh wait the American youtuber didn't teach the person from Berne anything new? That's crazy. Almost like it's a quick 10 minute overview of simple bullet points and not a documentary analysis.
Id never heard of it before now, kinda like no one from Berne has probably heard of the crying angel statue down the road from me
@@VeraBean Switzerland. Not sweden. Just to clarify.
@@VeraBean you mean Switzerland? Sweden is a different country
Nice. My favourite restaurant in Bern is next to it. Fair prices for good quality
Maybe it represents the Evil Nephilim eating Children.Many stories of Giants and Dragons in centuries before this statue was made. Giants and Dragons often are eating young maids and Children as well in those old Stories.
When I see the statue it gives me warning of what the evil in men can do, and I actually appreciate it, it's much more provoking and very true to how evil corrupts.
Wow! Very well said!
I’m swiss and i can confirm this cuz swiss folklore is fucked up💀
I wonder what a person living at the time the statue was erected would think if they knew it was still standing today. Would they be like, "THAT THING is still standing and this other beautiful statue isn't?" It makes me wonder what random relics of today will stick around for a few hundred years and what conclusions people will draw from it.
Most people will draw the wrong conclusions ofcourse.
Fun fact: Most of the joyful fairy tales that we know about tells a very dark story in their original form
That's the fault of Disney. I wasn't a fan of his stuff and it wasn't so all pervasive back in my childhood, so we got the original dark, scary, fairy tales told to us by our parents. I loved them, most kids do. It's only adults that force sentimentality on them.
The pink stone mason ape is just wonderful, what were those guys smoking?
I know. I grew up reading the original Grimm’s fairy tales. I also read a lot of Hans Christian Andersen’s stories!
I think the anti semitic approach isn't far fetched. There are many more examples like this all over Europe from the same time period. That leads to the curious situation that statues are protected cultural goods, but noone really wants to "know" their meaning...
Apparently a lot of witch imagery today is rooted in antisemitism, such as the hats and long noses. So the witch theory isn’t far off from this.
@Pureblood1488 Like what the nazis tried to do with the rest of Europe? Not that hitler himself was even German...
Pretty much everyone is the result of one group of people taking over another, some take-overs just happened farther back in time than others or we have less documentation of them. I'd even wonder what your DNA results would show?
I don't think it's got to do with antisemitism. The hat they were forced to wear looks nothing like this at all, I'd like to know how this theory even got started.
@@CJM-rg5rtts not a theory that Jews abuse and kill children. History is full of examples. Its pretty far-fetched to believe all of those myriad examples are somehow false. Jist because the Jews find it offensive to reveal this information doesnt mean it isnt true. Infact the more they claim its false, the more likely ir is to be true. We arent exactly starved of examples in the modern day. What religious culture did Epstien come from? What about Harvey Weinstien? Or Anthony Weiner? Oh yeah. All jews.
I'm amazed those statues are still there I'm good condition after a few hundred years.
taking pride in your work yields a different result than being driven by fiscal profit.
The statue resembles the description of the Pied Piper legend. That legend was about a brightly dressed Piper that ended up abducting children when he didn't get paid for getting rid of rats in a town. The Piper legend comes from the 1200s so this could be about that legend.
Very good, the Children of Hamelin were led out to the river and past the woods never to be seen again, with only three children in town remaining. It's likely the same trickster entity.
OMG, no way! Really? That sounds interesting!
That is my guess too. It instantly reminded me of the "Rattenfaenger von Hameln" legend from 1284
@@booksrus6168 Nope. It was inspired from a case in 1287. Rudolf, a boy, was murdered at Passover in the house of a rich Jew called Matler. This is why the statue wears count clothes.
The boy was canonized as a martyr, and his name can be found in several martyrologies. Documental authorities:
Bollandists, Acta, Vol. II, April; Helvetia sancta (H. Murer); Karl Howald, Die Brunnen zu
Bern, 1848, p. 250; Cosm. Munst., 13, p. 482.
Wow i live in Bern Switzerland and i'm very surprised you did a video on the "Chindlifrässer" it always scared my and i was surprised someone had the balls to put this statue/fountain there
Not balls, rather righteous anger.
Kronos (Ancient Greek: Κρόνoς, Kronos), also spelled Cronus, was the king of the Titans, and father of the first generation of the Olympian gods; Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. He is also the father of Chiron. He is the Titan lord of the universe; his rule was known as the Golden Age. He is the Titan god of Time, Harvest, Fate, Justice and Evil. His Roman name is Saturn.
Kronos married his sister Rhea and they had six children; Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. In fear of his father's words that one of his own children would overthrow him, he then swallowed them after they were born. However, when Rhea was pregnant with her sixth child, Zeus, she went to a cave on Mount Ida in Crete where she gave birth to him in private. Rhea then took a boulder (provided to her by Gaia) which she wrapped in a blanket, which she gave to Kronos instead of Zeus. Rhea left Zeus on the island of Crete where he grew up. Fearing Kronos would hear Zeus' crying, Rhea sent Nymphs to make noise so loud, Kronos would never hear him. She had also sent a goat named Amaltheia and a few other nymphs to tend to him and they raised him deep within a cave. Once he grew to a formidable age, he was nearly ready to combat Kronos. Zeus married the goddess of prudence, Metis, for he needed her good advice. Zeus gained a position as Kronos' cubbearer; he gave Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine to drink (some sources say nectar). Kronos thought it would make him more powerful, but to his surprise, he instead vomited his children.
Cool
Funny the statue looks a lot like Lord Farquaad
@@sentientbottleofglue6272 OMG, same! I just said that! Yeah, isn't that strange that it looks like Farquaad? Shrek be like "Yep!"
Wow, how interesting, thanks 😊 👍
@@alicerivierre
Yeah!
Omg yes, this is the first thing I thought. Always loved the metaphor of the father eating his children in fear that they'd destroy him first. There's a lot of debate over the meanings of the story. I have heard it could be a metaphor for a royal family's civil war, it could be a subconscious reference to our prehistoric ancestors child sacrifices, or a reference to even longer ago back when humans used to ritualistically cannibalize the bodies of dead relatives.
And of course, it could just be a scary story parents tell their kids to make them behave
Dude, is that Lord Farquaad from Shrek? LOL!😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
I see it 🥸
Sounds like something from the Brothers Grimm.
(My brother lives in Bern, which is really awesome).
Yes! It may just be a statue commemoration of a storyteller of their time who lived there.
Great video as always weird history,keep it up best videos on the go
I am surprised that this baby-eating statue is not one of Hajime Isayama's inspirations for Attack on Titan. He claimed that his inspirations for the series came from his encounter with a drunken man when he was working at an Internet cafe and the cannibalistic Mona Lisa from one of his favorite manga series, Hell Teacher Nube.
i was not the only one who immediately thought of a titan. even has that freaky bug eyes look
how will you kids eat when the economy crashes?
@@donHooligan wot
@@iMajoraGaming
how will you eat when you cannot exploit others to do so?
Wow, _Hell Teacher Nube!_ There's a fan translation of a lot of the chapters out there and I think it covers the Mona Lisa one, too. It's worth checking out, but you might need to stick through a couple chapters before getting to where the series hits its stride.
It is pronounced Kint'-lee Fres'-ser and the city is pronounced as Bearn. Just like the animal it was named for. The "Ogre" is meant to represent a Moor, or Turk as it was carved at about the same time as the siege of Vienna in the 17th century
Too white to be a Turk or Moor representation.
I was confused what he was saying until I looked at the spelling😅
Almost, in Bärn we say, "Chindlifrässer", which is more prounced like "Kind-lee-fraess-er" where the "Ch, K" sounds like you are preparing your throat to spit.
Bisch aber äuä säuber Bärner/Schwizer u cheggsch, wasi meine. Gibe trotzdäm mi Sänf derzue :D
in Yiddish, "fress" has a connotation of "gobbling" or otherwise eating exuberantly
Stop the cap, this is a Jew
Maybe we should make more of these baby eating statues to scare kids so their feelings don't get hurt over words. This was their version of, "I'll give you something to cry about!"
And remained young forever
What a video about my city on weird history? :0
Also it probably isn't a swiss krampus, because there is already a character called Schmutzli who more or less is the swiss version of Krampus.
I always thought that Krampus was Swiss! We live and learn.:)
@@thedativecase9733 nah Krampus is Austrian and Bavarian I think. Though I'm not sure about Bavaria.
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
This was terrific! Interesting and very entertaining. Still my number 1 favorite CZcams channel!👍🏼💜🦋
Thank you for this video! 😀🌹
Most likely the artist's own interpretation of the Greco-Roman Titan Chronos.
My first thought!
Exactly it's Chronos
Nope. It wears the judenhutt for a reason.
I live in Bern. The "Krampus" is from Austria not from switzerland. And the story behind the "Kindlifresser Brunnen" was the murder of a child named "Rudolph von Bern" some hundret years ago. The people in this antisemitic times thought the jews killed him in a Ritual. Thats +- the story behind
The boy was canonized as a martyr, and his name can be found in several martyrologies. Documental authorities:
Bollandists, Acta, Vol. II, April; Helvetia sancta (H. Murer); Karl Howald, Die Brunnen zu
Bern, 1848, p. 250; Cosm. Munst., 13, p. 482.
Artists being artists, I'd guess a popular story at the time was about an ogre in the woods that ate bad kids so he made a fountain of that story.
Nope... There was no artistic freedom at that time. This statue was ordered by the city authorities for a specific reason.
Us Mizo also have stories told by our ancestors to their children about an ogre like thing called 'Nawngsawhnawh' who stole children and ate them. They told this stories as a warning to those children who misbehaves 😂
New sub here. This was great I’ve never heard about this before. Have you looked into the story behind the piper of Hamlin? I’ll check your vids 👍🏻
That’s a good one. It would be interesting to know where that came from. I always wondered what happened to the children in that story!
Oh, I thought it would be a well known fact, that we mainly eat 3 things in Switzerland: Cheese, chocolate and babies.
Loved the video 😍
Enjoyed your video and so I gave it a Thumbs Up
It looks like Lord Farquaad 😂😂
It was made in 17th century, maybe they were basing the statue on Cronos. Classical references were very fashionable then.
Nope, they were basing the statue on a rich jewish man called Matler. His crime goes back to 1287.
I love your channel and now you release a episode from my hometown? -mind blown-
And I thought garden gnomes were weird! One of the best narrators I've heard 👍🏼🤓
That’s an idea. Where garden gnomes come from and who’s idea was it to stick ‘em in a garden!
I live near Bern and I always avoid this statue when I visit 😭😭😭😭
This is hysterical and I love it.
I'm surprised that this episode isn't on the Weird History Food channel 😬😂
Fantastic episode 👍🏻❤
Great. Now I’m going to be delving into fountains,a thing I never knew I needed to do before, but then your video showed a quick shot of some fantastic female fountain with what looked to be majestic water spewing hair and now I need a closer look at what appeared to be some long lost art love of mine. Commence the new love obsession!
But seriously, this was pretty awesome. Had no about this and I kind of love how the city just seems to appreciate fountains.
Ahhh the inspiration for "A Modest Proposal".
Could be! Did Swift know much about Swiss statues? It was Swift wasn't it?
I always just thought that statue was based upon the story of Cronus swallowing his own children (from Greek mythology)
I'm from switzerland and i really liked that video,how you pronounced those swiss words :D. I remember a guy who told me about the "Chindlifresser",he also used a picture for his music. I'm not sure anymore but he told me about that statue but way to long ago x). Anyways great video & Bern is a very beautiful place and you will find alot of those old "houses",we call them "Altstadt" and you'll find them in other Kantons aswell :)
Weird History is the best.
If history has taught us something is that next time someone makes a statue they better hang a little tag or note to it explaining it's origin or inspirational background.
It wasn't needed back then. Everybody knew what the statue meant.
"We need a family friendly statue. It needs to have children and a imposing creature of mythology"
Finished work:
"Nooo, what are you doing, not like this" face getting all pale and devastated
Maybe it’s a famous cannibal from the time when they didn’t have a lot of food…..
"I like children, as long as they are properly cooked."
- W. C. Fields
Heheh!
“Children should be obscene and not heard.”
- Oscar Wilde
This makes me think of Moloch who was a Cananite God of Child Sacrifice who is shown eating children.
Yep.. you are close to the mark.
May not be the weirdest but it sure is the scariest
Flashbacks to Sam O'Nella's video on Tarrare. Never heard of this fountain before, really cool.
tarrare. look at me. did you eat a FUCKING *_BABY_*
I had this statue in a geoguessr map of mine lol. Its very cursed
Yes it is.
Kronos wasn't a god, he was a Titan.
Titans were the pre-olympian gods.
It's so sweet that someone made a statue of Lord Farquaad.
Thanks for this! 🚼
The guy probably did it just to mess with people
Artists couldn't just do what they wanted back then and have it placed on a city square.
I always assumed it was a monument to the Baby-Eating Bishop of Bath and Wells.
I'd forgotten about him!
A prank started in the 16th century and still going strong. I wonder how long my statue of an ogre eating babies will stay up downtown.
Now I'm in the mood for some baby back ribs.
Can you please make a video of Prague Astronomical Clock?
for me as a NATIVE swiss, born and raised in berne (switzerland), it is funny, how other people think about us and our fountaines.......
I think it's that most of us know so little about Swiss history.
Most of the other fountains have somewhat wimpy-looking figures in simpering, safe poses....I think the sculptor got bored showing so much goodness and decided to have some fun with a baby-eating ogre
Wasn't made for fun, and there was not artistic freedom back then regarding such statues. This statue was ordered by the city authorities for a specific reason.
They have similar bear statues in the city of New Bern, NC.
Gonna comment before watching. This seems like a great way to keep the kids in check.
The krampus and antisemitic explanations are both extremely plausible.
Please make a video about Emma Goldman!
Boo!
To me seems like a medieval version of Saturn eating his children.
Love how you pronounced Kindlifrässer 😂 Greetings from Berne❤
I think it’s a reference to a biblical painting from the 15th century
Cheers from San Diego California
Could be inspired from there, but it's not a reference to that.
" And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight."
~Numbers 13: 32-33
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I was told stories about monsters that kidnapped children at night who did not go to sleep on time. This statue could also possibly signify something similar that if children misbehaved then this monster can come and eat them. A story which worked well for parents of that era.
Would love to hear the history of domesticating dogs and/or cats.
not much to know really. Dogs came from wolfs. They would hang around humans to eat the scraps of food and with time they turn more and more docile and started to become pets.
Cats on the other hand was exactly the same. They started hanging around humans and people realized they would scare the rats, this was important since rats would eat the crops. That made them keep feeding the cats and they kept staying around up to today.
The domestication of cats and dogs happened hundred of thousands of years ago. So there isn't any recorded history, to make a video from. There is probably historical evidence of historical leaders, making use of dogs in military campaigns. But nothing on how the domestication actually happened.
I'm pretty sure that's an ancestor of my ex-husband 😜
That guy also had a wife
@@a57989 He still does.
"Baby swallower "🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣😂
reminds me of saturn devouring his son
of all the theories presented the anti-semetic one sounds like the strongest.
And it is the correct one.
My wife is from Bern, and the myth she grew up with was that it was as a deterrent from children entering the Aare River. The current location isn’t the original as it was erected closer to the banks of the fast flowing river. According to her, none of the theories provided in the video were ever a reason for the statue’s construction. Hopp YB und SCB!
I used to work in Bern a lot and that was my favorite statur. I was also given the same explanation. Swimming in the glacier fed river is very popular and it can be deceptively dangerous
That just shows how knowledge has been lost, and being born there hasn't done much for her in the sense of knowing the actual history.
I kinda wonder what was in the water or food to create such awesome hallucinogenic art!
Life is overwhelming
Can we get a video about the Swiss Guard?
Swiss Mystery! IS THIS A SWISS-TERY?! 🔍🤔
Malius malificarum or "the witches hammer" in English. Both make for pretty cool death metal band names 🤘
It more correctly translates to "The hammer of witches" and I was going to use it as a band name years ago, (had the same thought as you although it was years before you thought of it) however, the band "Cradel of Filth" has an album named "Hammer of the witches" that was released on July 10th 2015. So they beat both of us to it. Also just fyi the book "Malleus Maleficarum" written by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger; is spelled as previously stated.
It reminds me of Goya's black painting called Saturn devouring his son. It's the same God. Cronos is Greek. Saturn is Roman. It's creepy af.
C'mon, don't drag poor Krampus into all of that!
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