Time for all good sweetlings to go to bed. When will the Krampus Gate open? When will the Holiday Devil come from the little ones? “When mother freezes over,” he cackles. His belly writhes like a bowl full of worm jelly – children’s faces press from within distended skin like nervous actors against the theatre curtain. “Hra-hra-hra! To all a good night!” Cheeks painted red. Who’s that dancing on the icy roof – stamping on the ramping with a cloven hoof? We smell him under the rot of the Black Friday dead. Packages and parcels and red-red wrapping and little hands dismembering it all in joyful sporagmos. Who’s that yonder, all yuletide banes – dragging behind him a sack of chains?
TRANSMIT – initiate the Saturnalia signal – RECEIVE – initiate the Lord of Misrule cadence – YOU BETTER WATCH OUT – initiate the Feast of Fools – YOU BETTER NOT POUT – initiate the Childermass prerogative – LULLAY, THOUGH LITTLE TINY CHILD, BY-BY, LULLOO LULLAY – initiate the hel-bár complexion – WITNESS – Krampusnacht
Yessssss, Krampusnacht is the winter holiday event in The Secret World.