Krampus Plays Grugby With Boscha

 

In 2018, Krampus gathered some deserving cartoon cuties for punishment, well it time to gather some more  bad cartoon cuties.  We have mean girl Boscha of Disney's The Owl House was playing a game Grugby with Krampus.  Now she is losing the game to the anti-Santa Claus.

Boscha is a recurring antagonist in the 2020 Disney Channel series The Owl House. She is the former friend of Amity Blight and served as the main antagonist of the Season 1 episode "Wing It Like Witches".

She is voiced by Eden Riegel, who also voices Maggie from Amphibia.

Initially, Boscha becomes Amity's friend due in part to Amity's parents threatening to make her friend Willow's life worse. Because of this, Boscha became largely responsible for Amity becoming a bully herself.

Boscha bullies Willow and her friends Luz and Gus when they enroll at the Hexside School of Magic and Demonics. Because of her status as being the captain of the grugby team, Boscha is able to get away with most of her actions, with the teachers even stating that it could even apply to murder.

When Grugby season arrives, Boscha arrives to the school expecting to be greeted by a large crowd of admirers. However, the attention is instead directed at Willow who had reconciled with Amity. Envious, Boscha tries to bully her again, but Amity, keeping her promise, defends Willow and tells Boscha that she used to be like her but she grew up.

The bullying escalates to Boscha dumping garbage on Willow and harassing her and her friends. Eventually, Luz opts to challenge her to a Grudgby game. If Luz and her friends won, Boscha would be forced to cease her bullying. Boscha agrees stating that if she won, she would use Willow as target practice demonstrating it on tossing a ball at full speed at a tree which not only drills a hole into it, but the tree also explodes into flames.

During the game, Luz decides to call for a "forfeit" in Willow's defense. This causes Boscha to subject Luz to borderline horrific target practice.

Amity takes part in the game but ends up getting injured by Boscha who informs her that she had just ruined her social life to which she retorts that she believed that she made hers better. Unfortunately, Boscha's team won the game despite Luz and her friends' efforts because she caught the Rusty Smidge, thus also invalidating the entire game.

However, because of how well she played, Willow earns the respect of Boscha's team and is offered a spot but Willow declines it knowing that it would provoke Boscha's wrath. Despite losing her friends, she still isn't shown to be punished at the end.

Boscha is a rude and impudent witch, unafraid to insult and/or humiliate those she looks down upon with hardly any regret, especially Luz and Willow. Her major role in "Wing It Like Witches" shows her mean and rude personality more clearly, as she is shown being interested in bullying weaker and weirder people, like Willow, Gus, and Luz. She is also very controlling, often ordering her friends what to do as a ringleader.

She is obsessed with Penstagram, often using it to chat with her friend group, or to poke fun at somebody else; she even called it more important than a moonlight conjuring.

Despite her unpleasant attitude towards others, she does appear to have some respect for her friends. As seen in "Understanding Willow," she immediately stops romantically questioning about a cute ghost upon Amity's intervention. She also seems to have a soft side, as shown in her positive reaction and blushing to receiving her palisman, Maya, in "Hunting Palismen."

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.