My mom said that her grandmother hired a krampus to scare them when there were young. He had a chain with him and when they would hide under the bed he hit the floor or the bed with the chains to scare them. 😶 (Sorry for my english)
Wenn da krampus kommt, fast alle mädels aus meine klasse sagen "Oh mein gott, ich habe glocken gehört!!! Ich will ned zum krampus lauf gehen, aber ich muss!!! ICH HABE SO ANGST!!!" boah des nervt man! Ich geh niemals raus zur diesen krampus lauf. Bin kein feig oder sowas, ich hasse es raus zu gehen 😂
Keiron Richmond Exactly I am Romanian and for me Haloween is wierd but i will not judge because on Christmas we have people dressed up as bears singing old popular romanian songs
Well, another weird Christmas tradition is from my country, Greece. Depends in which region you live but we have three different ones. 1) We decorate a ship instead of a Christmas tree and we put it in front of our Windows. Some people decorate both a ship and a tree. 2) They smash a Pomegranate once the new year comes and in some parts of Greece they smash one pomegranate a day till New Years. 3) In the Greek parts that are closer to Bulgaria and FYROM they dress into a weird monster-goat-cow with big sheep bells around their necks and they dance around the villages and cities while being accompanied by musicians that play traditional songs. The Legends says that their dance and attire keeps evil spirit is away from the people and scares the evil witch called Mpampo. Once that is done kids roam the town singing Christmas songs and people give them money or chocolate (now that we have economic downturn)
Vasiliki Tzalachani no I live in Canada specifically kellowna,but it's really cool because we are actually doing a report on ancient Greece, so it must be really cool to learn all about where you live.
I'm just saying that these may be strange to Americans, which I think is who this video is targeted to, but for some people it is there culture and calling it weird could be highly offensive. Just make sure your careful about calling other cultures traditions weird. I'm not trying to be mean so I'm sorry if It came across like that.
But wierd is not necessarily a bad thing, as a norwegain with a very wierd tradition according to the video, I thought it was funny and interesting to see our tradition through a foreign perspective, because they are actually right, traditions are wierd, you just don’t think about them that way because you are so used to them.
The thing that actually is most offensive is the americans lack of knowlegde, we from foreign countries knows about american traditions, but they don’t know anything about ours, that is why they think our traditions is wierd, and we may not think their traditions are wierd because we are so used to see them in movies and other media. People from other countries tend to be offended when americans don’t know anything about the country you’re from (if you are from a small country like me), the reason why some people get offended by that is that it makes them feel like their countries and culture doen’t matter as much which sadly is true for my country
Dovewing thewarrior I'm American and I'm interested in your holidays because they sound really fun!! Like really really fun!!!!! Have fun on your cool holidays
Ok I‘m from austria and your explanation is a little exaggerated... the ones that go from house to house go with the nikolaus who brings candy and stuff to children and the only other way you can look at the krampus is at a public show where basically different villages present their krampus creations cause the head is carved out of wood... and kids do not get scared often cause the krampus are nice to them and it’s mostly the older people (or kids from like 16+) that get scared by the krampus cause they „hit“ them with some branches... it’s not that brutal or bold how you describe it 😂
I guess western traditions are weird as well. I mean, putting a tree inside your house and stuffing gifts inside of socks basically😂 I can’t really judge anyone else’s traditions lol
Comment section 50% I’m from Austria 30% THATS SO OFFENSIVE IM UNSUBSCRIBING 25% You forgot about this country 14% I’m from this country we don’t do that your lying 1% funny comments
@@dharling97 well my family is from Oaxaca and ive actually never heard of it. Probably its done in a smaller village. I dont find it weird tbh. Its more about the art.
From Catalonia, I must correct, parents usually hide the log somewhere in the mountains, a forest or the house, then kids go search for it, once they do, they take it home, feed it and when the day arrives, parents put the candy and gifts and then the kids beat up the log while singing traditional Catalan Christmas songs (also about beating chickens and stuff) and then it represents as if the log had pooped the gifts and candy, that's like the gift, we don't wait for the next day (and also, parents eat the food you give to the tió when kids aren't looking to pretend it ate.
The traditions are not weird at all as a Canadian American I say that these are interesting and sound fun! What ever tradition you do have fun with it!
iceland soud be on here, i mean we have 13 santas and we put our shose on the window,Then when its 13 nights to christmas we get little gifts in our shose,And by christmas we mean the 24th of desember and we eat the good christmas food at 6pm not erlyer or sooner,Then when evryone is done eating we cleen the dishes and open the presents under our trees. And on the 25th ist just a normal day..... Or 2th in christmas so we weird... XD
As a Catalan I'm so proud that you show this tradition, and I imagined it would be on this video when I read the title 😁 But as far as I know, or at least the way that my family or others use to do this tradition is not the one you show on the video. The kids "feed" the log some weeks before Christmas eve. That night they cover it with a blanket and "beat it" with the sticks as the video said, but after this, they instantly find their gifts under log's blanket (the family put them there before the kids start the "ritual", without their knowledge of course 😉).
Ukraine! 🎄 My family puts spider web on christmas tree, we believe the legend. For fun, my father goes out to store and purchases fake gold and silver web. He like pranking us and film it on his camera. We put our tree up days earlier so we can buy web before it run out at store. other person do that from Ukraine? Sorry about my English, I only been in Australia for month.
WHY ISNT ICELAND. THERE IS LITERALLY A CAT THAT WILL EAT YOU IF YOU DONT HAVE NEW CLOTHES AND YOU GET A LITTLE PRESENT IN A SHOE EVERYDAY FROM THE 12TH TO THE 24TH
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! My Christmas tradition is going to watch a movie although I don’t celebrate Christmas but I still can have some on the Christmas day
Kublai Yes obviously. You got offended that they call other traditions weird, but why assume that she meant it in a negative context? Yea the word weird has a negative connotation nowadays but it simply meant something the line of uncommon or not often seen.
A kind-of tradition where I'm from (Somalia) has nothing to do with Christmas or religion at all, but I would like to share it. So when I was a kid, my mom used to tell me and my siblings these amazing folk stories and legends my mom would tell us a new one all the time and one I remember was called "Dhegdeer" which translates to "Big ears". So in the Somali forests, there lived a cannibalistic old woman called Dhegdeer, as her ears were enormous and resembled an elephant's ear but more pointed. So this cannibal had a small house and every time there would be a lost wonderer to the forest, she would lure them to the forest and pretend to help them, then strike them, kill them, cook and eat them. So one day, two lost boys entered the forest, late at night trying to find their house but got lost because of the darkness. So they found Dhegdeer's house and Dhegdeer was standing outside, and asked to help these two boys and the boys agreed because they had nothing else to do and she took them inside, fed them, gave them a haircut and bathed them and treated them as if she was their mother and didn't start killing them. Then Dhegdeer did their haircut and then got a knife and killed and ate them. So my mom would always tell this story when one of us would go out by ourselves as we would "get lured and eaten by Dhegdeer" and I would get horrified as a 10 yr old.
Sounds like Hansel and Gretal (I’m sorry if I spelled that wrong). I live in America, I love that it’s a melting pot of a whole bunch of different cultures! I’m also a Christian and to me Christmas is the day symbolizing the day of my Savior’s birth!:D
Erica Roberts Yep it is really similar. And I like how you celebrate Christmas how it should be. These days most people celebrate Christmas but don't really care about the meaning and story of Christmas.
esta B.A. I think that was my mother's point because the story has been passed down for generations orally by Somali families and poets. So my mother obviously was told this story and knew the moral, and passed it down to us as a reminder that you have to be careful.
I'm from Ukraine 🇺🇦and we don't put spider web 🕸️🕷️🕸️on our christmas trees🎄!!!!!!!Even though the story that you made up, is really interesting ,this is really not true!!!!!!!!!!!!Liar, liar pants on fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you, For making sense about her!! She can't just call our traditions wierd!!!! We don't even do it anymore!!! She is the doofus here!!😣😣😣😣😣😣😣😡😡😡 She,the fari lwyd is great upon this region,and we will not let her sweet heart die out,if it does,she does💔
Don't listen to her, we don't rap battle,!we sing songs and often come inside to celebrate Christmas and have a cup of tea and maybe a cake,........ RU-vid MAN!!!! SO FAKE
Tbh calling these traditions weird is very offensive to other people who celebrate these traditions just sayin. Btw this is a nice video tho. i love your channel its full of cool and awesome facts.
the holiday tradition in my country is that every night on Christmas Eve we celebrated Grandmarket where everyone comes out into the Town Square in every Parish and sell food, toys, everything
Lol we have the Krampus guy too, here in Slovakia. On 6.12., St. Nicolas travels with an angel and the devil (Krampus), to leave presents in kids' boots. 😂😂😂 Its actually quite fun
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A life without jams, ummmm I have no idea what the comment says and then I see this.......*totally confused* EDIT~ SO I READ ALL THE REPLIES THAT I UNDERSTOOD AND I FEEL LIKE AN IDIOT
bunnie from 5 nights at freddy well why are you on RU-vid? You're only 7 lol. You have to be 13 and up. Get off if you hate people who are just commenting smh
In croatia St. Nicolas (Sv. Nikola) day is on december 6th. BTW Krampus and St. Nicolas (Sv. Nikola) wonder around the town together and if the kid was nice then St. Nicolas (Sv. Nikola) put candy in the boot but if the kid was naughty then krampus puts something bad in the boot
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I’m Dutch and we actually have this tradition we’re st. Nicolas arrives with a steam boat around the time of 6 November and from that day till 5 December.we put our shoes by the fire place every evening and than every night st Nicolas brings us thiny presents and candy, but on December 5th it is his birthday and he brings a lot of gifts.
