There is a dark side to the whole Santa business in the first place. The whole "he who knows if you've been sleeping, knows if you're awake, knows if you've been bad or good," is already pretty big brotheresque. But the Germans and Austrians weren't content with denial of presents for naughty children. Instead they invented an evil twin for Santa who would accompany the jolly old elf around and punish bad children as Santa rewarded the good ones. What could be better than adding a scare factor to Christmas?
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