i love how the translations utterly crumble under the mighty austrian dialects XD

@keithparker5125

5 ай бұрын

I love the way all translation programs fall over with ALL dialects!

@eaglevision993

5 ай бұрын

The translation went completely berserk when they start the Austrian dialect.

@Christof_SmaulXL

5 ай бұрын

Wenni onfoang Schwäbisch z'schwätze woischDu aunimmer wo hindnunvorn isch...

@eyeofthasky

5 ай бұрын

@@Christof_SmaulXL not really it is still german, especially ur sentence right know, the same words, the same order, just pronounced more like molten cheese, kinda like with the spätzle 🤷

@Christof_SmaulXL

5 ай бұрын

@@eyeofthasky Its way easier to read. First time I actually understood a Swiss friend in his full dialect mode was when he let me read some of his chats he had with a Swiss friend. It was actually super easy to read. I lived a year in Switzerland and up to the last day I struggled understanding spoken Swiss German. 😆

its funny how the auto translate cant handle her tyrolian accent lol

@pietsmiff3564

5 ай бұрын

I thought ist’s dialect.

I am german and the most funny part for me is, that I have to read the english subtitles to understand the austrian boys....🤣

@Karl-me4mh

5 ай бұрын

But the subtitles are all messed up. I'm from cologne and I still can understand them. Reading the subtitles just confuses me.

@dmschoice2571

5 ай бұрын

Yes, that thick Austrian dialect is probably barely understandable anyway for anyone not from that region :D No wonder the subtitles are giving up.

@crazydegulady

5 ай бұрын

But they aren't hard to understand.

@michaelgoetze2103

5 ай бұрын

I think we can now appreciate how confusing it must be for Ryan - don't understand language, subtitles confusing. 😂

@brittakriep2938

5 ай бұрын

​@@dmschoice2571: I am swabian, so also a member of ,Upper German Dialect Group'. I had to listen carefull, but could understand it.

Krampus, for my understanding as a native german, is more known in the alpine regions of Germany and Austria. In my region, we have "Knecht Ruprecht" as Santa's sidekick. His purpose is more about punishing bad children, while Santa is more about rewarding the good ones. It is definitely less violent and scary and more a symbolic character (it's mostly a dude in a brown coat with a beard and without a mask, a darker Santa with a rod). Krampus and Knecht Ruprecht seem to have a similar origin, but developed in quite a different direction.

@burningsheep4473

5 ай бұрын

Around here (northern Austria) while I grew up it was much like you describe, but we still called him "Krampus". Less like those "Perchten/Krampusse" shown in the video. But to be honest, trying to look it up, it feels like both terms have started to flow together. At least around where I grew up I never associated Krampusse with any kind of runs only with St. Nikolaus.

@eaglevision993

5 ай бұрын

Here in Baden Wuerttemberg it is Knecht Ruprecht, Krampus is more known in Bavaria and the very south of BW I think. Maybe it is the same figure, just different names?

@rumpelpumpel7687

5 ай бұрын

@@oldeuropemyhome76 in dem zitierten Gedicht fungiert Knecht Ruprecht aber als Gehilfe des Christkindes, nicht als Synonym für den Weihnachtsmann.

@gwaihir5211

5 ай бұрын

Percht and krampus are different. The krampus punisches the bad children and the percht chases away the evil Winter Spirits.

@oldeuropemyhome76

5 ай бұрын

@@rumpelpumpel7687 Da hast du auch wieder Recht, war ein schlechtes Beispiel. Trotzdem, bei uns gibt es einen Knecht Ruprecht allenfalls als Synonym für den Weihnachtsmann. Eine gruselige Figur gibt es gar nicht. Der Nikolaus am 6. Dezember kann aber eventuell etwas ehrfurchtgebietend sein und bringt den bösen Kindern nur Ruten (Fichtenzweige)

To most Germans these Austrian Krampus traditions are as weird as they are for Americans.

@sns4748

5 ай бұрын

Im from central Germany and we have it too but during carnival

@ndee6832

5 ай бұрын

de Preissn aka. Biffkes kennan des hoid ned :D bei uns in Bayern und Österreich is des hoid a tradition!

@Dennis-Hinz

5 ай бұрын

Piefke mit P 😂

@Drangi33

5 ай бұрын

@@ndee6832 Macht doch was ihr wollt. Wir Deutschen haben so viel erreicht und alle Welt verehrt dieses Land. Mit eurer Überheblichkeit wischen wir uns den Allerwertesten ab. Da könnt ihr krähen wie ihr wollt. Lächerlich, immer wieder.

even though they tried to speak standard german, the dialect was strong enough to mess up the auto translate. There are people in germany who need subtitles for our southern german, austrian, swiss dialects :)

thats in austria not in germany

@laura_gieger

5 ай бұрын

thank you for saying that! 😅

@prunabluepepper

5 ай бұрын

That's also why the translation failed hardcore

@arnebollsen

5 ай бұрын

😊österreich war noch bis ins 900 jahrhunderts bayrisch😊 ( großherzogstum baiern). das gebiet erstreckte sich einschließlich bis süd tirol knapp bis zum gardasee. um 900 war bayern noch größer, bis kurz vor venedig😊👍 österreicher von tirol bis kurz vor wien sind eigentlich bayern. ab wien sinds keine bayern im weiteren sinne mehr. das erkennt man schon an der geneinsamen kultur ausgehenda ab südbayern bus süd tirol in italen.

@tobistuben2063

5 ай бұрын

@@arnebollsen sehr informativ, danke :) aber der Brauch wird ja heute dort gelebt und heute ist es Österreich

@tubekulose

5 ай бұрын

@@arnebollsen "Bis ins 19. Jahrhundert"? Du meinst das 9.

Love it that you react to some austrian videos. I would be happy if you reacted to more austtian videos from time to time👍 greetings from austria👋🇦🇹

The tradition of Krampus probably comes from a pagan custom and goes back to pre-Christian times. The frightening figure was supposed to scare away the evil fog and winter spirits with its appearance and terrible noise. However, the custom was banned during the Inquisition. Anyone who disguised themselves as a devilish figure was punished with the death penalty. However, in some more remote Alpine valleys the winter custom continued. From around the middle of the 17th century, the tradition arose of Krampus traveling through the streets from house to house as St. Nicholas' companion. The custom has continued to spread and is practiced particularly in Bavaria, Austria, Slovenia, South Tyrol and Northern Italy. In many places “Krampus parades” are a tradition. Before or on December 5th, whole hordes of horrors parade through the town and the Christmas markets. Either in St. Nicholas' entourage or in a large Krampus group, they scare passers-by, spread fear among children and punish cheeky children and young people with their rods. Entire Krampus runs are often organized where up to a thousand devilish Krampuses can be seen. According to historical custom, only young, unmarried men are allowed to appear as Krampus.

@billiejo3800

5 ай бұрын

This is a very good description of an old custom and similar rituals still exist in the south and south-west of Germany. Perhaps not quite as violent, but in principle with the same meaning in regions originally populated by Celts. There are the Wolpertinger in Bavaria, the Elwedritsche in the Palatinate, the witches' night at the summer solstice, the Raunächte, and many more. The aim was and is to protect the community from evil, starvation and to make worthy sacrifices to the gods.

Tyrolean = People from Tirol, which is a state of Austria. A Krampuslauf would be translated to a Krampus parade, only that you might get hurt. The old tradition of Krampus (still active) is that St. Nikolaus visits every house with some Krampus accompany him with children sitting behind the kitchen table. The parents prepare a few things the childs did good and bad and the children will get presents but also will be frightened for when they did something bad. If they did something really bad the Krampus will try to pull the children out in the snow. The whole Krampus gang will walk around with their big cow bells for a few days so all children will be afraid because everyone passing them will get whipped. Since this is a catholic tradition it is only known in the catholic parts of germany, mostly Austria.

I'm from the north of Germany and I only learned about Krampus a few years ago. To my knowledge it's an Austrian thing. But maybe it's also a thing in the German regions, that are close to the Austrian border. For me this tradition looks really strange.

@NineBerry

5 ай бұрын

It doesn't only exist in the South. Look up "Klaasohm"

@RisteRistevski

5 ай бұрын

We do have them in Munich as well.

@gert-ib4dy

5 ай бұрын

Nein, so seltsam ist das nicht. Du musst die Ösis mögen, dann mögen sie dich auch. Sie haben sicher mehr Angst vor dir als du vor ihnen...

@Gokudo87

5 ай бұрын

@@RisteRistevski well I would consider Munich close to the border aswell. You just need to drive about an hour or so, from Munich, and you are in Austria. I can understand, there are similar traditions.

@MrsStrawhatberry

5 ай бұрын

The South Bavarian (that is what the language group is called, Austrian dialects apart from Vorarlberg which is Allemanic all belong to this group) cultural regions include Bavaria and Austria. It belongs to both just as much. Bavaria is quite big so I wouldn’t say ‚regions close to the Austrian border‘. Munich is far from the border even if it’s a relatively short drive compared to Hamburg. For people from Munich Rosenheim or Berchtesgarden would be close.

I know this tradition from my husband family as Perchtenlauf. And in most regions the Krampus Tradition is mixed with the Perchten Tradition and in the video you can see Perchta, the old woman (witch).

Ryan really needs context for this - it's only a thing in the Austrian Alps (60%ish of the Austrian population) and the neightbouring Alpine regions of... don't know how much it's a thing in Southern Germany and Slovenia. And only in the most remote places like Eastern Tyrol in this case the event is that big and violent. Calling it a German thing is like calling the New Orleans Mardi Gras an all American Holiday.

@RiverSt.Augustin

5 ай бұрын

Yeah 🇦🇹

@monicapascolo

5 ай бұрын

It’s a thing also in the most northern parts of Italy, where it borders Austria

@Alias_Anybody

5 ай бұрын

@@monicapascolo Just South Tyrol or also the Italian speaking areas in Trentino?

@monicapascolo

5 ай бұрын

@@Alias_Anybody From what I know only in South Tyrol in that region, but also in northern Friuli, where I'm from, which is east of there

@tubekulose

5 ай бұрын

No, the Krampus is St. Nicholas's companion in ALL of Austria (not only 60% of it). So he is in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Northern Italy, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

An additional peculiarity of the custom is the table pulling ("Tischziehen"), which has been practised for decades. At these events, which are organised separately from the Schauläufe, a number of volunteer men sit behind a large, solid wooden table and try to hold the table as long as possible under their own power against the onrushing Krampuses. The aim of the Krampuses is either to tip the table over or to pull the table far enough away from the starting point. This type of competition is decided separately for each round, as the men usually change after one round and the Krampuses split up into different groups.

Just watched the first half of the original video with German subtitles. They aren't any better 😂

In alpine regions of Bavarian culture region, Austria, Bavaria, Southern Tyrol a local folk wrestling style called Rangeln is still alive.

Google translations and language recognition finds its limits in Tyrolean dialect 🤣

Greetings from Austria. Krampus (Knecht Ruprecht) is celebrated on December 5th, which brings coal to bad children, at least from a historical perspective. On December 6th, St. Nicholas (Nikolo) comes to bring sweets for the good children. Krampus is known and celebrated in most of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire countries. The Inquisition even banned it, but it continued to be celebrated in inaccessible villages. Krampuslauf are more of an Austrian thing and are mostly celebrated in villages - by unmarried men who are able to serve. Every village has it's own tradition. So it can quite vary what they do and how the costums look like.

@Moonchild0

5 ай бұрын

​@@alidemirbas6566 Because Protestants celebrete Knecht Ruprecht instead of Krampus. Christians more Krampus/Kramperl or Bartl. Krampus is probably originated somethere in the alp region

@Dennis-Hinz

5 ай бұрын

Krampus mit Knecht Ruprecht in einem Satz😂. Das ist wie Chucky und ein Teddybär😅

@Moonchild0

5 ай бұрын

@@Dennis-Hinz Verschiedene Regionen, verschiedene Namen/Hintergründe

It's just kind of silly how much the media focuses on injuries. At every Taylor Swift concert, more people get hurt or need treatment than in the Krampus tradition. It's just part of the role play of this tradition that everything is a bit violent, but you really don't have to boil it down to that.

@pe.bo.5038

5 ай бұрын

Love the comparison to Taylor Swift concerts!🤣😂🤣

I‘m from the North but I like this tradition. Looks like chaotic fun

I sewed a Krampus costume once for a friend. You need so many of them and it's so time-consuming. But I have never sewed something I was so proud of.

Thanks for the "we'll do it live" meme. Glorious😂

it is NOT the “Tylenol boys,“ but “Tyrolean“ boys. Tyrol/Tirol is the alpine province of Austria neighboring Italy…

@gt748r

5 ай бұрын

Tyrol isn't just neighboring south Tyrol (=Itlay), it also borders Bavaria.

@Attirbful

5 ай бұрын

@@gt748r Of course it does. As most any location borders on a variety of places… Did I say anything conflicting that?

Not really how it is "usually in Austria" ... the video talks about how they do it in Osttirol which seems slightly different and more extreme ... But this is how I know it typically: People dress up as "Krampus" (look into the lore of that if you want to) and then they run through the streets and hit people, jump on cars even fight the police who try to hold them back ... I saw several of them chaining one of the "Krampuses" (plural of Krampus ... no idea) and he was "out of control" It's all a show, there is tamer versions troughout the country and people thinks it's great to bring their little children to this so they get terrified (the last time I was at a krampus run is many many years ago when I was much younger *sheds-a-tear* ...) Jokes aside ... definitely a weird tradition but there is also the the Nikolo one day after where you get peanuts, chocolate and tangerines ... at least when I was younger

@burningsheep4473

5 ай бұрын

Yep, peanuts, tangerines and one whole Nikolaus made from chocolate.

I've seen traditional Krampus costumes in a museum in the city of Salzburg, Austria. The long shaggy fur trousers and fur jackets (from unkempt sheep's fur), the heavy cowbells, the fanged monster masks or horse skulls... but the masks I saw all had huge curved horns on them, usually horns from rams (normal sheep or the German moorland sheep) or the even longer horns of the male Alpine Ibex _(Capra ibex)_ from the European Alps mountains. In Folklore, the Krampus is a satyr-like type of wild fairy that abducts & punishes children who have been "bad". A Krampus (always male) is said to have a very long (a meter or so), thin, whiplike, red, forked tongue which will loll out of his mouth. Like a satyr, a Krampus is also very randy. It carries a large sack to carry off the children it abducts, and a brushwood stick to whip them (which isn't actually done, just threatened verbally as part of the tradition).

there are quite a few traditions that play into the whole krampus and perchten thing. Also there is fasnet with the Narrensprung in Rottweil. Different time of the year, but still cool costumes.

Austria is not a German Subculture. We have our own culture. The Krampus custom is mostly Austrian and maybe Bavarian (I don't know enough about Germany to say that confidently) 😅 but I will say that I'm missing the horns on the Krampus masks. So the Krampus accompanies Saint Nicholas usually. At least around the 6th of December. In many villages you can find a small group of Krampus's and one guy dressed as St. Nicholas going from house to house and visiting the children especially. I do remember as a kid that there were some cases where the Krampus's got too drunk and lost it a little. I remember hearing stories of some of them having razor blades in their birch (I think that's the word). You get the idea

@S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Strelok

5 ай бұрын

>Austria is not a German Subculture Sure buddy

@ronnie3561

5 ай бұрын

Come on - Austria is a colony of Germany.

@laura_gieger

5 ай бұрын

@@S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Strelok Oh wise one please enlighten me then if you're so cultured on those two different nations.

@S.T.A.L.K.E.R.-Strelok

5 ай бұрын

@@laura_giegerSorry ich dachte der Scherz in meinem Kommentar war offensichtlich genug. Aber Österreich ist im klassischen Wortlaut natürlich auch eine deutsche Nation, das hängt nämlich allein von der Sprache ab. ("Deutsch" - "Theodisc" Althochdeutsch für "in der Sprache des Volkes"). Dazu gehören alle Völker die einen Dialekt von Deutsch sprechen. So wäre Deutschland trotzdem Deutschland wenn statt dem gesamten Norden des aktuellen Deutschlands dafür Österreich Teil wäre. Und als Bayer fühl ich mich natürlich schon kulturell enger mit den Österreichern verbunden als mit dem Saupreiß. 😉

@firemainstreet

5 ай бұрын

Krampus for Österreich-Ungarn, im französischsprachigen Belgien Lothringen : père fouettard

Many Americans seem to think that Krampus is a thing throughout Germany, and sometimes I get the feeling that Krampus is more popular in the US than in Germany. The Krampus videos I see in my fb timeline each year are all posted by Americans, and to some of them I am linked by an American friend because I am German, so this is my tradition 😆 I am from North Germany, there's enough to fear here anyway, so there's no need for a Krampus 😉Although Krampus is a thing close to the Austrian border (South Bavaria, Upper Palatinate) and they did develop their own, slightly different Krampus tradition over the time, I would say it's first and foremost an Austrian thing. That being said, since we have nine neighboring countries, many of our traditions are influenced by traditions of other countries, so it's somehow typical German to have a quilt-like tradition that also consists a little Krampus-"patch".

@scofield321

5 ай бұрын

Wundert mich nicht. Die Amerikaner denken ganz Deutschland ist wie Bayern, in Lederhosen und shit. Mir geht nicht in den Kopf, wie man annehmen kann, dass alte Traditionen in jeder Ecke eines Landes gefeiert werden oder gar bekannt sind; nicht mal Weihnachten wird überall in Deutschland gleich gefeiert. So dumm, zu denken überall würden Leute Lederhosen tragen.. die Banker in Berlin und Frankfurt tragen wohl auch Lederhosen.. Auch wenn ich nie in Südkorea war oder Indonesien oder sonstwo, kann ich doch als einigermaßen gebildeter Mensch annehmen, dass Dinge auf dem Land anders sind als in Großstädten; dass nicht überall das gleiche gedacht, gefeiert und getragen wird. Ein Bauer in Montana oder Kentucky hat mehr mit einem Bauern in Deutschland oder Chile gemein als Städtern in Los Angeles oder New York.

We in Bavaria have the KLAUSEN. They are similar to the Krampus, but they have masks made of fur and big horns on the head. They have big sticks in their hands to beat the passengers with! Nowadays they have numbers pinned on their back, so the police can register them, in case they beat the people to hard, which happend very often in former times.

@Lexal88

5 ай бұрын

in Oberbayern haben wir Krampus und Perchten

This year on St. Nicholas Day, I booked a santa for my children and he came with Knecht Rupprecht and Krampus. I didn't know this before and my children were absolutely shocked. I live in southern Germany near Lake Constance...

Na na...^^ are we confusing Germany with Austria again? (Southern Germany in the Alps to the southeast of Hungary is called Austria and is its own nation) There the Krampus is celebrated as a tradition, in Germany, as already mentioned here, there is more of a tradition of the Knecht Ruprecht, who is actually not given a fixed shape and is not really celebrated at all. (It actually serves more to tell the children, be good, otherwise Santa Claus won't come, but rather Ruprecht and with the rod.) Such Krampus Runs can actually only be found in the southern Alpine area). So very rare for Germany. In times of raising children without fear and violence, it is increasingly losing importance and is only mentioned in passing.

Even a native German like me has trouble with that Austrian accent.

the krampus custom really got tame in the last decades. when i was a boy in the 80s there was blood and tears involved, but it was fun.

the video: everything is in Austria Ryan: Germany is so crazy

Krampus is mainly an Austrian thing, I believe in Germany only Bavarians have Krampus - so one out of 15 states (I can be wrong though), the video was even shot in Austria - so Krampus is definitely not a German thing. Austria and Germany are two different cultures and saying that one is a subculture of the other, ist like saying US is a subculture of UK - but living in the US I met a handful of people that never grasped the difference between Austria and Germany.

@tubekulose

5 ай бұрын

It's a thing in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Northern Italy, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

For the table pulling you can also watch: Krampus Thurn Osttirol 2014

well, you can clearly see that the place where they are fighting has been made for this. That's no hard ground there, to prevent heavy injuries through falling.

4:29 "I'm trying to interpret this. It's not easy" is the exact same reaction i had in my head when trying to understand that guy's dialect xD this is not even Germany, this is Austria. The dialogue is very dialectical hence why the translation is quite messed up. Krampus may be known to Germans but it's NOT as big of a thing as it is made in the US. Everytime i hear of krampus, it's on some US late night show or whatever. It may be bigger in austria.

I was at a ball recently that was Krampus Themed. Nicolaus and 5 Karampuse came and ran through the event area. It was very fun to see people in fancy dresses and suits next to Krampus. 😂

Osttirol ist in Austria

I grew up near Grödig and I hated the Krampuslauf so much. I´m still terrified of them and as soon as I hear the bells I panic. Krampus even used to come to my highschool every year and I was so scared I skipped classes and stayed at home every time haha

Krampus and all this violent/ horror- like stuff is German/ Austrian thing, in Czechia its just one evening when more or less drunken St Nicholas is roaming thru our streets with much less scary and much more normal looking and friendly Devil( not really, only compared to Krampus, kids still cry and have to convince him not to put them in his sack and take them to the hell with him) and accompanied by Angel used like moral support for any accosted kid, whos then given chocolate, fruit or small gift for his/ her ordeal( or coal if he/ she is the naughty one).

If you want to come see this tradition without the risk of injuries, come to Innsbruck. We do the light version for the tourists 😂 The video showed Krampusse from Eastern Tyrol. They are notorious for being especially brutal. I even heard it is better to not say you're from Northern Tyrol during Krampus time, because they will target you, but I don't know if that's true.

@ExploringCodeCrafter

5 ай бұрын

Probier es mal aus und berichte uns dann davon 😅😅

@catonkybord7950

5 ай бұрын

@@ExploringCodeCrafter Lieber nit 😅

@Pyrobanane

5 ай бұрын

Servus aus Osttirol

@ExploringCodeCrafter

5 ай бұрын

@@Pyrobanane servus aus stmk ;)

@xYonowaaru

5 ай бұрын

I've seen a very tamed down version of a Perchtenlauf in Vienna. They still hit the females tho. It surely wasn't for the tourists tho, as far as it wasn't in a touristy area. But the city only allowed it under strict rules. As a German this still was some kind of an experience.

The translations in the subtitles are very bad... so its ok for you to be confused ;-)

1. Krampus and Perchten are not the same thing! Krampus: comes with „Nikolas of Myra“ and has Christian/katholic background. Can be dated back to the 17. century, started in monestry schools. Krampus has a more human face. Perchten: Perchten have a pagan background(good vs evil, wintertime as a symbol for evil.) They come in packs or alone. Perchtenruns also take place after Christmas. Have on their back. Krampus and perchten can be found in: Austria, Switzerland, Southgermany, Liechtenstein, NorthItaly, Parts of Slovenia. It’s typical to the alpes-area in Europe.

There are differend kinds of "Krampuslauf" or "Perchtenlauf". Those which are less brutal tend to have the more impressing costumes with big horns. You should realy look up some pictures of "Perchten" if you are interested.

Translation issues and side notes: 1.) "Campus live is in various parts of Austria and Tyrol" is a wrong translation. Correct: Krampus runs take place in various parts of Austria and Tyrol. 2.) "More brutal and violent" is the correct translation. 3.) Table pulls (or table pulling) is the correct translation. The tradition is called "Tischziehen" or "Tischziachn" 4.) "Dozens of injured people every year" is the correct translation 5.) "Tyrolean boys": Originally she said "Tyroler Burschen". "Burschen" can be translated as boys, but also as young men. In this case, she refers to young men, so "Tyroler Burschen" are young men from Tyrol. 6.) Injured "by animals" is a wrong translation. Just ignore " by animals". No animals involved here ;) She said that around Lienz, several dozen people are injured each year due to this tradition. 7.) The doctor did not say "normale Frisuren" (normal hair styles), he said "normale Blessuren" (normal smaller injuries) 8.) "Devil group" is the correct translation. 9.) What Daniel, the chairman of the devil group, roughly says (beginning with "if you do the stuff united in the campus...."): When you wear the Krampus costume, you are no longer the person you were before. You behave a little differently. You make sure that nothing happens to anyone, neither to other people nor to yourself, but it's just... well... a way of life, I would say. You either like it or you don't like it, and everyone knows that you're... really fanatical, so we're excited about it all year long, and you don't know it any other way, so with table pulling... 10.) Subtitle "Grödig, Krampuslauf": Krampus run in Grödig (the event is called "Krampuslauf", which means Krampus run, and the Krampus run shown here takes place in Grödig, Austria, which is not in Salzburg city but near Salzburg) 11.) What Daniel very roughly says here (beginning with "and that's how grandpa was lying...."): No one hits anyone with their fist or anything else, sometimes we act emotional but no one hurts others intentionally, not much can happen. 12.) The guy that speaks after Daniel says: You become a bit fanatical. 13.) I have NO idea where the "Cannabis extract" translation comes from :D She asks the two men in the Krampus costumes if they think about strategies beforehand. The first guy answers that strategies are inevitable. The other guy adds that the people behind the table are at least as strong as they are. 14.) The reporter roughly says that one of the paramedics just said it's a week-long state of emergency, and that that's exactly what it is. There are hundreds of people there, it's Wednesday evening and it's escalating. 15.) Not a translation issue, but... dear Ryan, this whole video is about Austria, and what you see is not German subculture but Austrian culture and an Austrian event. The quality of the costumes at traditional events (throughout Europe and all around the world) is extremely high because those traditions (including the costume making) is passed on from generation to generation, and they stem from a time when there were no machines, so everything was made by hand. The native people in your country have high quality "costumes", too. 16.) Also not a translation issue but an explanation: The Krampusses walk so funny because they have huge bells mounted on their backs, and they try to make as most noise as possible with every step. Also, of course, it looks more alien and dangerous. 17.) The reporter asks the shirtless young man who was one of the men behind the table if he ever had a laceration or something. He replies that he has been doing this for sixteen years and has never had anything. She then says that another young man nearby appears to be injured. He replies reassuringly that yes, this guy has something with his ear. She asks if it's just part of the event. He replies somewhat defensively, yes, that was a little rougher, that can happen sometimes, but on the whole it is peaceful. She asks, somewhat jokingly, if that means he's going to sew himself up again and then stand behind the table again, and he replies that it's enough for today. 18.) The reporter asks one of the two young men (one in a Krampus costume and one without, so both belong to different "teams") if there will be revenge tomorrow, and he replies, yes, there will be revenge tomorrow. She finds out that the two are switching sides tomorrow, so the other is wearing the Krampus costume, and asks if it doesn't matter that you then take revenge on the person who was previously part of your team. He replies that that's part of it, it doesn't matter. 19.) The reporter says that several people confirmed to her that they don't get time off for such events because their employers don't want them to come home injured and then maybe even need to take sick leave. Hope this helps ;)

The Krampus tradition is concentrated in the southern German-speaking area. It has its roots in ancient Celtic culture for well over 7,000 years. Back then, people wanted to drive away the winter that plagued the country with snow and ice every year.

@claudiaberger9639

5 ай бұрын

Americans often do not understand that the peoples of Europe are the indigenous peoples. Not like in the USA, where you have to refer to Indians as “natives”. In Europe, all indigenous people of a country are indigenous people.

The translation is difficult for machines and people that are not locally connected in this area. Just let somebody from Seattle go to southern rural Alabama and try to understand when they talk in their native version of English. (The translation is great except for some misunderstood words and replacing them with what it thinks is sound a-like.)

it's a miracle that the translator can identify german words XD This is so confusing - even for me as a German!

The Austrian mountain region produces tough men :-)))) some of these customs are pre-christian and got later adopted by the church. Salzburg and the mountain regions were the centre of celtic culture in Europe.

Germany has a mass of very old traditions, most of them from the early midage. Not every tradition is known all over germany, but in some special regions. And there are very very strict rules in traditions like krampus-runs.

Fast speaking and heavy dialects can be very tricky for the auto translation function. 😅

I've never saw this in Germany I think it's a Austrian thing. I was at one krampus run over 10 years ago it was brutal. In the the region I was had no table part so they just run through the streets and hit people with wooden sticks. Yes there were girls and boys all around and they could not care less which gender they hit. It hurt so bad. But the most important rule: never run away! If they seem you running away, they are going to follow you. It's so scary when you hear those bells ringing behind you on your escape 😅

@tubekulose

5 ай бұрын

It's a thing in Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Northern Italy, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

Hey Ryan, I'm actually originally from the village of the Krampus group they were interviewing and it's so interesting to me to see how other people around the world react to this tradition. I myself am very sceptical of this custom because I just think it's unnecessarily dangerous and violent. during this week you really have to consider walking outside as soon as it's dark because the men dressed as Krampus are basically "patroling" around the streets and so you are not safe anywhere... in terms of costums: no, not everyone makes it themselves, there's mainly one guy per group who can sow the sheep skin together the right way (that's actually what my uncle does) and to carve these intricate wooden masks is a whole different craft which takes a lot of effort and is expensive too. The problem with the video subtitles is that most people interviewed speak our regional austrian dialect and the auto translation only picks up standard German :)

@juliaspoonie3627

4 ай бұрын

Interesting that it’s this more violent and dangerous in Tyrol. I grew up in Bad Ischl and while you had to watch out a bit as an adult during a Krampus run (or if you were a close friend of a Krampus) but otherwise it‘s just a fun and cool tradition.

The Austrian to English translations are hilarious.😊

for a native spaking german its a foreign language even they speak something akin to german 🤣

@FrogeniusW.G.

5 ай бұрын

Not for every German. Mostly for people from north.

@xYonowaaru

5 ай бұрын

@@FrogeniusW.G. I'm from the north and I understood them rather well.

Even by simply watching this, you sense that this opens a gate to the subconscious. These archaic rituals release aggression in a controlled way. And they are certainly better than getting yourself into really dangerous and unpredictable situations---or worse perpetrating actual violent crimes.

not in germany, only in south bavarian dialect is not translated correctly in youtube

@Salige150

5 ай бұрын

But it is est tyrolien a level higher

*Krampus appears in the folklore of Austria, Bavaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Northern Italy (Autonomous Province of Trento and South Tyrol), Slovakia, and Slovenia.* ☕🍪🕯✨🎄🎭

I need german subtitles for the Krampus boy at 4:25 🤣🤣🤣 btw.: i've never seen any Krampus in my life. That's hill-people stuff.

@catonkybord7950

5 ай бұрын

"Wenn man das Krampusfell anzieht, ist man nicht mehr der, der man davor war. Du verhältst ich ein bisschen anders, du führst dich anders auf. Du passt schon auf, dass keinem etwas passiert, also dir selber und demjenigen, der dir gegenübersteht beim Tischziehen. Aber es ist halt, ja, eine Lebenseinstellung, würde ich sagen, ist Krampus. Entweder du magst es, oder du magst es nicht. Und jeder, der es tut, ist richtig fanatisch. Sie fiebern das ganze Jahr darauf hin und da können wir es halt krachen lassen, so wie beim Tischziehen ..."

@tubekulose

5 ай бұрын

"Hill-people stuff"? The Krampus is St. Nicholas's sidekick in ALL of Austria (not only the mountainous regions). So he is in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Northern Italy, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

"Germany" as a whole doesnt do Krampus. Bavaria does. In Austria its all over the place though its most popular in tyrol

I am from Westphalia and i have never ever heard of this

I just realized, that with the sentence "Die in hell!" I can buy a pair of shoes in Germany. ("Die in hell!" in german means "Those in bright!") 😁

"Tischziagn" = can be translated to "Tabel pulling"... this is a tradition, that is from Austria and even in Austria very rare! It is really not for everyone and it is extremly brutal. The goal is, that the group of "Krampusse" try to turn the table over and the other group tries to prevent them from doing so. Of course not everything is allowed, but a lot that can lead to mayor insuries. BUT everyone, who takes part of this, knows this and agrees to it. So, if you don't want to get your clothes torne to shreddes, or maybe break one, two or more bones, stay out of it.

Not only Krampus. For example in Czechia (and we are former part of Austrian-Hungarian empire) on December the 6th is a name-day of St. Mikuláš (Nicholas). Altrough we do not have "Santa" (Christmas presents are here brought by "Ježíšek" =baby Jesus), St. Nicholas is still celebrated on Dec 5th (night before the name-day of Nicholas). In our traditions the carolers go around the town and visit families with children, carolers wear masks of St.Nicholas, of an angel and of a "čert" (family-friendlier version of devil). Our Čert (pronunced "czert") is the tradition with same origin as Krampus (but we historicaly did not use this name). "Mikulášský průvod" (the St. Nicholas parade) historicaly included other characters too (but not today). Aside from Nicholas, Angel and Devil, some participants in the past were also Monk, Death, Executioner, Jester (and other medieval characters), also specific monsters like Lucka (Lucia - white night-consuming apparition, sometimes with a beak - the celebration of St. Lucie is name-day of Dec 13th and is connected to winter solstice, the shortening of the night), and the "Klovcová bába" ="Beaked Hag" (sometimes the same monster as Lucka, sometimes simmilar but different, probably merged traditions). Note that these specific monsters were originally a different celebration of a different date, but maybe the Catholic Church was not too happy about these traditions, possibly of pagan origin, today related to Advent celebrations (Pagan winter-solstice celebrations conveniently transformed into Jesus' birthday). The Krampus or čert (čert meaning devil or demon, not a personal name, you can say Krampus is čert's name) is very old tradition, very probably pre-christian, either celtic, germanic or slavic tradition (possibly predating both and being of same origin), could be some natural force or fertility deity of old (something alike a "satyr" of ancient Greek myths, you clearly see that young men and women like these mischievous celebrations even today). Also the "čert" is usually not as monstrous and scary as Krampus, the costume is usually horned, sometimes with a tail and sometimes with one foot hooved (other foot normal human). It is probable that Dr.Seuss' "Grinch" is based somewhat around this.

They probably walk this way to make the giant cowbells on their back ring.

Being a German (Piefke as Austrians call us 😂) I must read the English subtitles for understanding the heavy Austrian accent. I sat in the hotel lobby in Austria during ski season and peacefully drinking coffee, when all of a sudden noisy monsters broke in, dancing around me, touching me, laughing madly but then started talking to me in strong Austrian accent making peace. Phew!

@xYonowaaru

5 ай бұрын

How? The subtitles didn't make any sense at all. I'm German (even Northern German) and I understood them rather well. But maybe it's because my ex is Austrian and I spent a good amount of time there.

ooooh ... never mix up Austria and Germany. Krampus is an Austrian thing. It's only also known in some south German regions.

I'm Austrian, joining krampus for decades ... it's a very old tradition in our country... and to be honest, the costumes are INSANITY EXPENSIVE

Die übersetztung regt mich auf. Since i live in this area ill try to translate it better than this crap: One of the parademics said just now, that its only one week of state of emergency and its exactly like this. [Music] Krampus runs exist in various areas of austria but in tyrol is the whole thing a little different. In tyrol it is more brutal. There is the so called 'Tisch-ziehen' (literal translation 'table-pull'). Every year there are dozens of injured people and because of that the groups (krampus groups) didnt want us to film them. But we now found a group, that said, that we could go with them and that they would explain 'table-pull' to us. What tradition it is and why the boys here a week once in a year can attack each other. In this time there are dozens of people who are getting injured here in the area of lienz (its a city in austria. Its right next to south tyrol, wich got separated in a war from austria. South tyrol is now part of italy, they still have a strong dialect and the same tradition and kinda beef with italy.) And they mainly go to the hospital. Now we would like to know how many poeple are getting hurt and what those injuries are. The injuries are (he lists some injuries but dw its not bad. Its just that they get hit or fall over and scratch themselves on the floor or have some blue things) not that bad. The worst are broken bones. (Google did a great job with translation here and then they go to daniel.) Im too lazy to translate the rest but hope that helps anyways

The subtles are HILARIOUS!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪 Tirolerisch -> English, no chance to understand anything…!😅😅

It's Krampus in the south, St. Nikolaus in the middle and Klaasohm in the far northeast of Germany. I think Klaasohm is even more brutal then Krampus. But have never been to a Krampus-Run, so I don't know for sure. Still looks fun and chaotic for me. Two things I like. There are also Zombie walks all over Germany on Halloween. ;)

@MrsStrawhatberry

5 ай бұрын

But St. Nikolaus is a different person all together. He often comes with Krampus/Knechtruprecht. St. Nikolaus was also a real person.

Can people stop telling him that's just an Austrian thing? I'm from southern Germany and it is an old tradition here too. It's rude to, just because you live in the north and don't know about it, claim it is not our culture.

Autotranslate vs broad Austrian dialect. Dialect wins 🤣

I’m from Germany ( near the Dutch border) and without videos I wouldn’t have known anything about Krampus 😂 interesting video ! And in my opinion it’s a strange tradition.

Krampuslauf = Krampus run *höhö* Krampus are born in the Hell, but surely not in Krampuslauf *lol*

My brother once was a krampus for tischziachn and honestly it’s rlly fun. But people that are not from east Tyrol don’t rlly get it and think we’re ruining krampus but everyone’s having fun

When I moved to Bavaria, where this is a thing, from northern germany, I was 6 years old and TERRIFIED. To this day I cannot understand what the deal with this is. What the heck

krampus is bad santa😂😂

The first Christians tried to ban these pre-Christian traditions. But, yes. It's 2023 and the wild, crazy Germanic tribes still live on in this form in the southern Germanic regions. ❤🇩🇪🇦🇹🇨🇭 ❤

greetings from austria, come to tirol next year and see for your self this shits no joke hahaha

Eine dieser Masken kostet so um die 4000€....sind aus Holz und Hand geschnitzt..... Lg aus 🇦🇹 🤘 😁 🍻

The proof that austro-bavarian deserves to be recognised as its own language. If the dutch can pull it off, so can we!

This tradition is very regional as you read in the beginning. If this scares you, just come to the north. 😉⛄

Ryan this isn’t Germany, it’s Austria.

Krampus? Never heard of her. Greetings from the North Sea Coast.

5:40 that's the wall of the fallen heroes :D

Its like Croatian zvončari (bell-ringers)

I'm amazed that the translation shows anything at all, XD

austrian: speaking translator: so when uh the that you thing um

Don’t worry bro, even I as a German had problems to understand the chairman of the devil group 😅

At first - "Krampus" (one or many) is a thing in bavaria, parts of Tyrolia - even South Tyrolia. And else. Dated in the weeks around "St. Nikolaus/Niclas" - 6th of december. The one who puts goodies and sweets in your shoes. The "Krampus" - it could be just the "sidekick" of the "Nikolaus" - is the one who is punishing the "bad kids". Who doesn't deserve to get treets. Sweets or whatever. But are - in past times - prone to be punished. By the cane(s). The "tame" version. What is seen in the video are some local exagerations. Like the fight for the table flippings. Or - more common - that - around the 6th december - flocks of "Krampus" - up to 20 to 30 young guys are doing the "Krampus run". On a designated street - with an audiance waiting for the "Krampus" to run by them. Dressed in scary costumes (just Google Krampus Meran /Bozen / Tollwood) - and interacting/scaring mostly kids and young women by playfully "attacking" them. The "Krampus" are some reminiscence of former pagan traditions - with a possibility for younger guys to "let up steam - get a group bonding for a purpose". Scaring the kids - and teasing the girls. They hope to marry some years later. All of this sounds quite "young guys acting without rules" - quite the opposite. They switch into a role - put a costume on and act "scary". But still within some quite strict rules by the society they live in. As - in their role as Krampus - physical sexual harassment of women is an absolute "no go" ... as one of the rules active. Not by the state - by the community, by the village ... They have their own "limitations" . know "what is allowed" and what behavior is "off limits" - even punishable. Not by law in the first place - but by the community they live in. Acting "out of bounce" could really damage your reputation. And leading to those very many grades of "how to expell somebody" ...

Perchtenlauf is another word for Krampuslauf.

Here in southern Germany we dont have the Krampus but we have the "Allemanische Fasnacht" nearly the same masks but we bring our children, even babys to the Umzug to see the "Hexen" in the "Fez" 😂

Some people think that Christian religion had started to spread in Germany due to the invasion of the Roman Empire. But there's hardly any evidence for that. During the era of migration around 200 to 400 Germanic tribes were moving south, a some of them reaching the area near and in the alps for example. However they weren't entering uninhabited regions since that central area of Europe was populated by celtic tribes. As a consequence there are quite some variations in such old traditions and customs just because it's hard to tell how much of them is going back to either germanic or celtic traditions. And possibly even the germanic and celtic traditions weren't so uniform. After the roman emperor Constantinus the great accepted Christianity and allowed it to be spread across the roman empire the major step to turn Christianity into a state religion was made by Charlemagne who initiated sending Christian priests and teachers to many places in his empire to convert the population to Christianity and to cultivate areas by founding abbeys. Those attempts were met with different degrees of restistance to giving up their original pagan religions, germanic and celtic gods. One strategy was destroying places of pagan gods and building churches abbeys there. Other attempts were more violent and resulted in wars, eg. against Saxons and Frisians. I don't know if that was the original reason of the conflict between Charlemagne and the Alemannian tribes. In the end Franconian aristocracy was installed to administrate that area and abbeys and bishops became an integral part of that government. However, the local population remained attached to their old pagan traditions and the church had to deal with it somehow. In several cases they did by adapting pagan customs by attaching a Christian meaning to them, like the Julfest becoming Christmas or remembrance of the dead and their souls. The Krampus seems to fall in that category too. A different approach has been applied to Alemannic Carnival which has just been tolerated more or less until finally some Christian item has been added by celebrating masses during that time which also marks the last days before the fasting season before Easter. Particularly the tradition of Carnival has developed very differently in various regions in Germany and was abandoned in almost all protestant regions quite soon after the Protestant Reformation. Hence areas where Carnival is celebrated are typically roman-catholic areas (Basel/Switzerland being a rare but prominent exception).

As a 10 year old kid I grabbed one of them by the horns - he pointed his finger in my face and told me „I will remember you !!!👹“

2:57 Not by animals, translation doesn’t work properly with Austrian dialect 😂

"Burschen" does not mean "boys", it does not imply children. It's an oldfashioned term, still used in Bavaria and Austria. It's closest translation would be, I guess, the British word "bloke" or "chap" or the Scottish "laddie" or just a "buddy". Ein "Bursche" originally used to be just a young adult man, often a craftman's apprentice or a servant in a nobleman's household. You can also use it as a condescending term to insult someone: "Scher dich weg, du Bursche, du!" ("Piss off, you ruffian, you!") Ein "Burschenschaftler" is a frat boy, a male member of a "Burschenschaft" = university fraternity. (Note: Fraternities and fraternity houses are _very_ uncommon on German universities these days. In the 18th and 19th century they were quite common, and back in the days of Goethe their members were commonly liberal revolutionaries in ideology, as they proposed that all men, commoners and noblemen, should be equal. But like so many things, the Nazis ruined the "Burschenschaften", by appealing to their patriotism in the wake of the First World War and twisting it into right-wing nationalism. So these days the only fraternities left in Germany are those who pre-date the Nazi and had famous historic members.

We call them Parkli. And in some villages they take them really seriously. If you get caught by them you need to kneel and pray. And if there was not enough weddings in that year the oldest unmarried women get kidnapped and married to a scarecrow.