Inventor wrote:
In the northern tradition, Old Nick was an immortal that lived in the wilderness, and killed people with an ax. His clothing was colored with blood. He was held back by the sun, but on midwinter, when the sun hangs in the southern sky, he could come into homes and towns, with his partner, Krampus Wolpolis.
Both carried a sack, Old Nick left gifts for those he approved of, and Krampus had a whip and chains that he used to capture bad children, which he took to the wilderness to eat.
Those who kept The World Tree, the old faith, ornamented it, and left gifts of food, got presents in reurn.
Krampus was a small hairy man with cloven hooves, horns, but hands.
As we learn from the Brothers Grimm, mid winter was a time of hunger, when excess children were taken into the forest and left there. Hansel and Gretel were left by the home of an old woman who ate children. It was a system, something like Meals on Wheels.
The Star on top of the World Tree is the Pole Star, the Sun comes and goes, the Pole Star never changes. It is the axel upon which the world turns, the one thing we know is true.
Old Nick waited for those who behaved badly toward the people, along the roads and trails, in the wilderness, with his ax. It was the same where I grew up, there were some in town that would never hunt the deer, or go fishing in the swamp. They knew Old Nick waited for them.
The Old Ways are best.
Yes..the American Indian way of life..is certainly reflective of that too...
The closer one is to nature ..the closer one is to wh@reALLy IS....
In my estimation..and from that way of life..i knowNow..forgotten from before.....