Image credit
"Rudolf Hausleithner Nikolaus und Krampus" by Rudolf Hausleithner — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rudolf_Hausleithner_Nikolaus_und_Krampus.jpg — Public domain (artist d. 1918; US: painted before 1918 by an artist who died in 1918, public domain whether or not it was published before 1931; EU: 70 years after the artist's death; faithful photograph of a two-dimensional painting)Krampus: A 'Pagan' Christmas Devil With No Pagan Paper Trail
Krampus is billed as an ancient pagan demon, yet the records checked find no source for his custom before the late 1500s, and his name reaches print by 1856.
