Though he may be less well-known than Krampus, perhaps no Christmas figure is quite as bizarre as Belsnickel. Clad in ...

The Belsnickel — wearing furs, smeared in soot and waving a bundle of birch switches — visited ... the holiday season and Pennsylvania German Christmas traditions. “Christmas on the Farm ...

12—The Belsnickel — wearing furs, smeared in soot and waving a bundle of birch switches — visited ... holiday season and Pennsylvania German Christmas traditions. "Christmas on the Farm ...

It had been the usual jolly run up to December 25 for the city of Southampton. Revellers had drunk glühwein in the German ...

The Hall of Famer has made a habit of making kids happy around Christmas ... tradition of taking on Santa Claus duties (minus the sleigh-riding and cookie-eating, hopefully) will surely help give ...

Ever since Britain's first Christmas celebration in 521AD, we have accumulated many traditions. Eating a strange bird, ...

St Barbara’s Day or the feast of St Barbara on December 4th is celebrated in parts of Germany as ... and may have even given rise to the modern traditions of Christmas. The twigs for St Barbara ...

The scrappy, Christmas-loving German immigrants who founded this Hill Country hamlet 178 years ago brought with them one of ...

Is Christmas really Christmas without a cheesy Hallmark movie (or 10)? I have to admit that I tune into sappy Christmas ...

Here are 10 lost festive traditions that are no ... (with the exception of those in places like Germany, where presents are traditionally given on Christmas Eve, not Christmas Day).

The German island of Borkum has long celebrated the Klaasohm festival, a tradition rooted in pagan ... Following this ordeal, the women were given gingerbread cakes. This ritual dates back to ...

A family has been forced to switch off their Christmas lights after local 'Scrooges ... featuring over 7,000 lights and numerous inflatables in a tradition dating back 23 years.