{"id":8265,"date":"2016-09-28T14:38:13","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8265"},"modified":"2016-09-28T14:38:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:38:13","slug":"wild-men-of-europe-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=8265","title":{"rendered":"Wild Men of Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>\"\"I mentioned Charles Fr\u00e9ger’s book Wilder Mann: The Image Of The Savage<\/a><\/em> three years ago, but here is a magazine article with a selection of the photos. <\/a><\/p>\n

The article’s author writes,<\/p>\n

As it happens, I\u2019ve attended pagan rituals myself, in rural Austria, and I\u2019ve met men who work on their intricate, large, wooden Krampus masks all year long in preparation for the fantastical Krampus \u201cperformance\u201d in early December. I mention this as a prelude to explaining that (in my opinion) telling the difference between some authentic<\/em> pagan belief and just people partaking in a fun pastime isn\u2019t a straightforward proposition. It isn\u2019t that such people are necessarily undertaking such rituals in order appease the earth goddess Erda and improve next year\u2019s crop yield or anything like that, but at the same time I think that participants and spectators alike would agree that everyone is getting something<\/em> necessary out of it, something communal, something emotional.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well no, we would not want to think that it was actually religious<\/em>, would we? On the other hand, indigenous religions don’t require creeds. Some people go to the ceremony for the “something emotional” only, and that’s all right.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mentioned Charles Fr\u00e9ger’s book Wilder Mann: The Image Of The Savage three years ago, but here is a magazine article with a selection of the photos. The article’s author writes, As it happens, I\u2019ve attended pagan rituals myself, in rural Austria, and I\u2019ve met men who work on their intricate, large, wooden Krampus masks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131,99,5],"class_list":["post-8265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-europe","tag-masks","tag-paganism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-29j","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5448,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5448","url_meta":{"origin":8265,"position":0},"title":"Wild Men of Europe","author":"Chas S. 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