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Die Heiterkeit Krampus Haus and Krampus Krawl Pittsburgh, in Cooperation with the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership will continue to celebrate the Krampuslauf at Market Square!To all Krampus' and associated holiday kin, that would like to join us, we will begin to meet at Market Square at 6:00pm, at 7:00pm we march around the square! Arrive in your costumes and bring noise makers, drums and lanterns to celebrate the evening.
You do not need to be dressed as Krampus, we welcome other traditions of yule including Mari llyd, Icelandic Yule Cat or Christmas Cat, Frau Perchta (Christmas Witch), Yule Goats, Belsnickel, Hans Trapp, Jólasveinar, or Yule Lads (Yule Trolls), Gryla (Mother of the Yule Lads), Tomte Nisse (Christmas Gnomes). Etc.
We hope you will join us in the spirit of the season.
What is Krampuslauf?
Krampus, in central European popular legend, a half-goat, half-demon monster that punishes misbehaving children at Christmastime.
In Germanic tradition, on the Feast of St. Nicholas, Krampus Houses from many of the local villages would gather with lights and torches to punish the bad children before the Christmas Holiday, and Yule prior to the Christianization of Germanic regions.
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Market Sq, Pittsburgh, PA 15222, United States
