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

German folklore held that storks found babies ("stork stones") in caves or marshes and brought them to households in a basket on their backs or in their beaks. The babies would then be given to ...

Santa Claus may leave coal for children who misbehave, but in 16th century central Europe, children’s bad behavior risked a ...

Susan Jurgelski Jul 24, 2006 Jul 24, 2006 Updated Sep 11, 2013 At long last, he and his fellow keepers of German culture in the Lancaster Liederkranz folk-dance group Alpenrose Schuhplattler ...