The krampus never really abandons any of his children, however, and continues to watch them from afar as they become adults. but when their beauty starts to wane he kicks them out and sends them to the nearest village along with any children they had in the meantime. The krampus has an insatiable sexual appetite and an endless stamina to match, as well as an truly amazing capacity for romantic self-delusion, keeping a harem of attractive young women kidnapped from nearby villages and doting on them excessively. They claim abandoned castles in the wilderness as their lairs, adorn their homes with lavish luxuries and dress in only the finest clothes. A krampus, while as old and ugly as any hag (and often displaying physical mutations resembling parts of plants and animals), prefers to live in opulence and obsessive cleanliness. The hag and the krampus, while fundamentally the same manner of being, hate one another with a fiery passion. Where the hag has rejected the patriarchy that scorned her, the krampus embraces it with tongue firmly in cheek. One could write a depiction of a male hag, or krampus as I'll refer to it, that highlights the differences between the genders and uses them as a springboard for making krampus drastically different in behavior from hags. In fact, the maiden/mother/crone dynamic is itself sexist as it implies there aren't any other roles women can fulfill besides those three. The maiden/mother/crone is an invention of modern neopagans and doesn't actually appear in any ancient culture or religion, as any anthropologist worth their salt can tell you.
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