■Christmas Trivia Comics■
Oh no… so frightening…///
【Krampus】
Monster accomanying St. Nicholaus.
The Krampus in my materials had a rather adorable face, but as I started to research more, I found only really scary ones!
The Krampus around Germany gradually evolved, and it looks like he will be soon featured in movies too.
Midnight on Christmas
It has been decided that America, who is aiming for independence, will confront a German mercenary army.
The German mercenary army celebrated Christmas in too grand a manner and was eliminated.
【America’s Independence and Christmas】
Even though the American army was moving toward independence, its morale was lowered by repeated defeats, and it was a time where even among the soldiers, an atmosphere like, “Wouldn’t it be better not to be independent and just return to England?” started floating around.
The general of the American army at that time, Washington, predicted that the Germans would be having a grand Christmas celebration and devised a strategy to attack them on Christmas. That reading hit the mark magnificently, and they were able to gain an overwhelming victory against the drunk German mercenary army.
At the time when they were attacked, the German mercenaries’ commander was completely sloshed and in a state of shrieking and giggling.
The reason was that Germans of that era also wholeheartedly celebrated Christmas for a month, and they celebrated it similarly thoroughly on the battlefield. This was so decisive a victory that they even say if it hadn’t happened, American independence would have been delayed.
【Hessians】
Because this German mercenary army came mostly from the Hesse area, they were called Hessians by the American army.
By the way, the person with the scar on his face is Mr. Hesse.
The Halloween and Christmas of America’s early days were too dangerous.
But the fact that today’s showy Christmas with decorative lights and parades that Santa, dressed in red and riding on reindeer, plays a big role in, and today’s Halloween with pumpkin Jack-o’-Lanterns and children in many varieties of cheerful costumes going from house to house while saying, “Trick or treat!” were born in this America is mysterious, isn’t it?
Hyvää joulua!
