Christmas card

Traditions and symbolism

Christmas card from video producer Raven Hill Studios.

Humorous Christmas card, circa the 1920s.

In many continental European countries such as Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Christmas has a spanking-related tradition.

The character is known as Saint Nicholas, Santa Claus or Father Christmas in English-speaking countries does not only come to people's homes at St Nicholas day (or Christmas) to bring small gifts and presents for the children. In Europe, he traditionally comes to praise and reward children who have been 'good' in the past year and to reprove and/or punish children who have been 'bad'.

Sometimes St Nicholas is accompanied by a sidekick, a frightening companion for this punitive job, known as Père Fouettard in France, Hans Trapp in Alsace, Houseker in Luxembourg, Zwarte Piet in the Netherlands, Knecht Ruprecht in Germany, Krampus in Austria and Bicho-papão in Portugal. This companion usually has a dark, frightening appearance and carries a birch to threaten and/or punish 'bad' children.

Children were sometimes warned that if they were very bad, Knecht Ruprecht would put them into his sack and take them away. Illustrations frequently depict him with a large basket or barrel strapped to his back for hauling away bad children to his hellish netherworld.

In other cases, the two characters are rolled into one: St Nicholas has no companion and carries both a sack of presents and birch, to reward and to punish as required.

Today the tradition has disappeared in some places; in other places, the punitive element is still there, but usually, the birch will only be used for threatening. Sometimes a 'bad' child will receive a small birch as a symbolic present, and sometimes such a birch is even decorated with sweets to turn it into a positive present despite the intended 'warning message'.

A recent parody of a traditional Christmas song called The 12 Spanking Days of Christmas can be seen at a website created by Sarah Thorne. This site also contains Christmas spanking stories.

Christmas-themed punishment films

Christmas card illustration by Patty.

A number of underground spanking video producers have created films centered around Christmas. There is even an X-rated film called Christmas Punishment (2009) with porn star Jenna Haze. Below are some examples.

The 12 Days of Spanking is a humorous Christmas video by Cameron Dawn that be viewed on The Spanking Tube.

Abi's Christmas Present (episode 41 in the My Spanking Roomate series) is a reality-style spanking soap opera produced by Clare Fonda. On Christmas, Abigail (dressed in a green elf costume), is thoroughly spanked by her roomate Nicole and two other girls –– all three are wearing red Santa-style outfits.

Ash's Christmas Present is an 8-minute self-spanking video that can be seen on SpankingTube.

The Christmas Quiet (Lupus Pictures) is an elegant period piece set in the 1900s. Tattletale Hanicka informs on her sister Anicka and the maid after they consume an entire plate of Christmas cookies. Both girls get a harsh caning from the father followed by an enema given by the mother (while Silent Night plays on the soundtrack). Later the girls conspire to get Hanicka in trouble on Christmas day, resulting in her getting a caning and a humiliating ginger root figging.

Christmas Thrashings (from Moonglow West) is one of the few holiday productions to come out of the United Kingdom.

Christmas Treat (Firm Hand Spanking) features holiday M/F discipline of naughty elves.

Dana's Christmas Album - Seasons Beatings (danaspecht.com), a femdom video with Dana Specht severely beating a male submissive. (Preview clips can be seen at SpankingTube.)

Father Christmas and the Mischievous Gingerbread Girl (Spanking Digest, 2008) starring Richard Windsor and Audrey Knight.

A preview video is available at SpankingTube.
Free Spanking Bloopers & Outtakes links to two WMV files: Fun Outtakes (or are they Take Outs?) from "Father Christmas", with Richard Windsor, Audrey, Chris and Sassy Jane (Spanking Digest, December 2008)
Santa Claus and the little Gingerbread Elf - by Richard Windsor, on December 10th, 2008.
Santa Spanks the Bride is another short film by Windsor that can be seen on Spanking Tube.

Femdom film of Santa punished by three women.

In The Christmas Spirits (Chelsea Pfeiffer Entertainment); Carolyn Reese plays an elf who is punished by a drunken Mrs. Claus (Clare Fonda). Later there is a turnabout in the story where the elf gets revenge and paddles Mrs. Claus.

Lily Starr's Holiday Spanking Special is a Christmas video with a preview clip on Spanking Tube.

Megan's Xmas E-Card is a video Christmas card available on Spanking Tube

Merry Christmas From Shira! is a short self-spanking video posted on SpankingTube.

My Spanking Santa (SpankingSarah.com) features sex acts as well as punishment. A preview video is available at SpankingTube.

Nadia's Christmas Punishment (Outlaw Spanking Video) has a preview video at SpankingTube.

Pixie's Fantasies (from Punished Brats) is a four-part collection of spanking vignettes. In part 3, A Visit by Father Christmas, Amber Wells (aka Pixie) finds herself over the lap of Father Christmas who is dressed in a traditional Santa suit replete with a white beard.

Santa and His Big Sack (SpankingSarah.com) is an M/F video with Santa disciplining two naughty girls. A preview clip is available on Spanking Tube.

Spankorama (Chelsea Pfeiffer Entertainment) is an anthology of short films. In one of the segments, Ashley Fires plays an impish elf who is punished by an angry Mrs. Claus (Pfeiffer).

Spankorama II (Chelsea Pfeiffer Entertainment) is another multi-part collection of videos. In "When Elves Go Bad", Anastasia Pierce and Samantha Woodley play elves who spank each other and later face the wrath of Mrs. Claus.

There's Gold in Them Thar Frills! (SoundPunishment), English porn star Jasmine Lau gets spanked while wearing a Santa costume. A video clip can be watched at SpankingTube.

Xmas at Aunties, a femdom title featuring a female Santa, can be seen at SpankingTube.

A promotional video for the Boardwalk Badness Weekend 2011 event was created by Punished Brats featuring Amber Wells and Aurora being punished by Santa. You can watch the video at SpankingTube.

RichardWindsor.com Christmas montage - a compilation video from Punished Brats, starring Vanessa, Leia Ann Woods, Pixie, Juliet Valentina, Violetta, and, often as "good old Santa Claus", Richard Windsor, can be seen at SpankingTube.

References

Morgen kommt der Nikolaus, zieht dir alle Hosen aus.
– Traditional German children's rhyme. Translation: "Tomorrow comes Nikolaus, pulls down all your pants".

"Do you have the sack with you?"

I spoke: "the sack, it's right here;

because good children like to eat

apples, nuts and almond cores."

"Do you also have the rod with you?"

I spoke: "the rod, it's right here;

but only for those children who are bad

these it will hit on their right part." (note: the "right part" for receiving the rod is the buttocks)

(Translated excerpt of the poem Knecht Ruprecht by Theodor Storm.)

"What is in the sack, then?"

"Apples, almonds and raisins

and fine roses of sugar.

There are also spice nuts, for the good child.

The other ones, who are not well behaved,

he will thump them on their trousers."

(Free translation of the same poem, by Martin Boelitz.)

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Gallery

A young mother prepares the Christmas Tree while her child sleeps. Note the presents such as apples and gingerbread man, as well as the birch rod laid out on the chair.
Knecht Rupprecht threatens a girl who failed to say her prayers. From Die Struwwel-Liese (1890).
Detail of a broadside published in New York in 1810 on Dutch customs celebrated in connection with Dec. 6th (the day of St. Nicholas or "Sancte Claus"), showing a depiction of a good child who has gotten gifts and a bad child who has been punished, engraved by Alexander Anderson.
Der Putzenberch (1784).
Der Pelzemärtel (1850).
Père Fouettard birches a child.
Knecht Ruprecht enters the room (1852).
Knecht Ruprecht examines a child (1852).
Knecht Ruprecht entering the family room (1878).
Another reproduction of the same image (1888).
Sinterklaas (1852).
Modern Santa Claus spanking cartoon by Dave Ell.