Krampus is a horned, chain-dragging, cloven-hoofed devil figure from the Alpine tradition of Austria, Bavaria, and the surrounding regions of […]
In 1370, a cleric in Moscow recorded the case of a merchant who had died during a famine. Villagers had
In 2004, in the Romanian village of Marotinu de Sus, a family dug up their recently buried uncle. They cut
In December 1610, György Thurzó, the Palatine of Hungary, arrived at Čachtice Castle in what is now western Slovakia with
In the winter of 1461 to 1462, as Ottoman forces advanced into Wallachia, the army of Sultan Mehmed II encountered
