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The Visitor on Boxing Day
The Visitor on Boxing Day is a 7-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 every Boxing Day a stranger comes to the door of the old farmhouse asking for the family's leftover presents, and the family always gives them away to keep the peace. This year the grandchild answers the knock.
How it begins
Now, sweetheart, get comfortable, because this is the story your great-grandmother told me, and her mother told her, and it all happened in the old farmhouse at the end of the lane. You know the one, with the crooked chimney and the stubborn gate that squeaks whenever the wind gets its elbows out. Nobody has painted that gate in living memory, and nobody ever will. Every year, on the day after Christmas, the family would wake to a house that had grown quiet overnight. The snow would be piled high against the porch, soft and blue in the early light, and the lamps in the kitchen would still be burning…
The folklore behind it
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