While Saint Nicholas rewards well-behaved children with gifts, those who have misbehaved are punished by his fearsome, birch rod-wielding companion. The Krampus, with his devil-like appearance ...

Krampus follows St. Nicholas around on the fifth of December, Krampusnacht, rewarding well-behaved children with gifts and thwacking the bad ones with birch rods. Mays’ Krampus, however, uses his ...

Currently, only two of the five Fischmas Rods can be obtained completely for free: the Krampus Rod and the Candy Cane Rod.