Marking the end of the Christmas period, Perchta Day is a time when houses must be clean and tidy and spring jobs complete ready for the coming season. Frau Perchta is dual entity and either presents herself as a fair and beautiful, nymph-like, snowy, winter goddess or as a harsh, frosty, old crone- not too dissimilar to Krampus- who would dish out rather gruesome punishments for those who break holiday traditions or who were deemed as lazy.
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