Belsnickel

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    A companion of St. Nicholas in some Germanophone regions, with various cultural roles, including rewarding well-behaved children with gifts and punishing ill-behaved children by corporal punishment or by spiriting them away from their homes. Homologous with Krampus in other regions.

词源

Borrowed from Pennsylvania German Belsnickel.

来源：wiktionary