Krampus Silenced Sasha Waybright

 

In 2018, Krampus gathered some deserving cartoon cuties for punishment, well it time to gather some more  bad cartoon cuties.  It seems that there was not any creature was stirring, except for the bound and gagged Sasha Waybright of Disney's Amphibia was struggling to get free.  Krampus is going to fix this problem.

Sasha Waybright is a major antagonist-turned-supporting protagonist in the 2019 Disney animated series Amphibia. She was originally a student of Saint James Middle School until being teleported to the titular land three months prior, along with her friends Anne Boonchuy and Marcy Wu. She is currently the second-in-command of the Toad.

Sasha made her debut at the end of the episode "Best Fronds". She can be seen with Captain Grime thinking about finding another human in Amphibia.

In "Prison Break", after Sasha has talked several of the toad soldiers into abandoning their jobs, to Grime's chagrin, Sasha convinces him that being kinder to his subordinates may help get them in order, which proves to be correct. When a couple of giant herons attack the Toad Tower, Grime ordered his army to fight, but they were too weak to fight back. Seeing that Sasha can fight, the toad leader used her help to fight the herons. Sasha advised him to be friendlier to his army, which gained him an advantage. After the battle, Captain Grime offered Sasha one final mercy, which leaving his castle to find her friends or joining the toad army. She chose the latter, and he told her to meet him in the castle.

At the end of the episode "Anne of the Year", she and Anne meet again.

Sasha returned in "Reunion" to invite the frogs to have a party with the toads. When Sasha revealed that the party was a trap to execute Hopadiah, who has become a figure of rebellion, Anne tried to help the frogs escape, but all of them were surrounded by the toads. Grime asked for a duel between Anne and Sasha, which results in Sasha being defeated, but after the boom shrooms exploded, the tower collapsed. Sasha was about to fall until Anne had caught her just in time.

Knowing Anne and the Plantar family could not hold her weight, Sasha remorsefully said to Anne with parting words and tears in her eyes, "maybe you're better off without me", and willingly let go to fall to her death. Luckily, Grime would catch her before she reached the ground, after which he looked at Anne angrily and escaped with the unconscious Sasha and his toad army to an unknown location.

Sasha is a charismatic and persuasive girl who is somewhat of a rule-breaker to boot, as she eagerly encouraged Anne to steal the music box. Although she comes off as manipulative and selfish, she is not without a caring side, having promised to herself that she will find her friends who also got stuck in Amphibia and take them back home, as well as persuading Grime to be more affectionate for his soldiers.

In Central European folklore, Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure described as "half-goat, half-demon", who, during the Christmas season, punishes children who have misbehaved, in contrast with Saint Nicholas, who rewards the well-behaved with gifts. Krampus is one of the companions of Saint Nicholas in several regions including Austria, Bavaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Northern Italy including South Tyrol and the Province of Trento, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The origin of the figure is unclear; some folklorists and anthropologists have postulated it as having pre-Christian origins.

In traditional parades and in such events as the Krampuslauf (English: Krampus run), young men dressed as Krampus participate; such events occur annually in most Alpine towns. Krampus is featured on holiday greeting cards called Krampuskarten.

The history of the Krampus figure has been theorized as stretching back to pre-Christian Alpin traditions. In a brief article discussing the figure, published in 1958, Maurice Bruce wrote:

There seems to be little doubt as to his true identity for, in no other form is the full regalia of the Horned God of the Witches so well preserved. The birch – apart from its phallic significance – may have a connection with the initiation rites of certain witch-covens; rites which entailed binding and scourging as a form of mock-death. The chains could have been introduced in a Christian attempt to 'bind the Devil' but again they could be a remnant of pagan initiation rites.

Discussing his observations in 1975 while in Irdning, a small town in Styria, anthropologist John J. Honigmann wrote that:

The Saint Nicholas festival we are describing incorporates cultural elements widely distributed in Europe, in some cases going back to pre-Christian times. Nicholas himself became popular in Germany around the eleventh century. The feast dedicated to this patron of children is only one winter occasion in which children are the objects of special attention, others being Martinmas, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, and New Year's Day. Masked devils acting boisterously and making nuisances of themselves are known in Germany since at least the sixteenth century while animal masked devils combining dreadful-comic (schauriglustig) antics appeared in Medieval church plays. A large literature, much of it by European folklorists, bears on these subjects. ... Austrians in the community we studied are quite aware of "heathen" elements being blended with Christian elements in the Saint Nicholas customs and in other traditional winter ceremonies. They believe Krampus derives from a pagan supernatural who was assimilated to the Christian devil.

The Krampus figures persisted, and by the 17th century Krampus had been incorporated into Christian winter celebrations by pairing Krampus with St. Nicholas.

Countries of the former Hasburg Empire have largely borrowed the tradition of Krampus accompanying St. Nicholas on 5 December from Austria.