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The Candle in the Attic
The Candle in the Attic is a 5-minute Krampus Tale, a fireside Christmas story told by a warm grandmother and introduced by Krampus himself. Press play to hear it free, right here.
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The story
Grandmother tells how that the family attic holds one candle lit each Christmas Eve by someone no one can see. She and her sister climb up with a jug of cider to find out who lights it.
How it begins
Now, sweetheart, pull the blanket up to your chin, because this is a story about our old house, and about the attic at the very top of it. You have seen the little round window up there, the one that looks out over the snow. Well, when I was a girl, your great-aunt Hilde and I used to watch that window every Christmas Eve, and every Christmas Eve, without fail, a single candle would be burning behind it. Nobody lit it. That was the first strange thing. We had no candles up there, and the attic had been locked since your great-great-grandmother's time. The key hung on a nail in…
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