You Think Coal Is A Bad Present?

So what if you have been bad this past year? In most places the worst fate a naughty child can expect on Christmas is a lump of coal in your stocking but children in other countries, however, can expect worse.
Naughty kids in Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and northern Italy can expect a visit from Krampus, a demonic half-goat monster who drags chains behind him as he walks, whipping bad children and if they have been really bad, kidnapping them which sounds bad but then Austrian children also have Frau Perchta to contend with, and she slits the bellies of bad children and stuffs their corpses with straw.
In Wales, a knock on the door could be Mari Lwyd, a creature with a horse’s skull while Icelandic children should plug up any cat flaps in their door to stop the giant ogre Gryla's Yule Cat from entering as he is searching for naughty children for his master to feast upon, cooking them in a vat of stew.
Hans Trapp is a man dressed as a scarecrow and has a taste for human flesh as he roams France at Christmas looking for young, tasty children but at least there is only one of him, Greek, Bulgarian and Turkish children have to avoid a horde of Goblins called The Kallikantzari who spend most of the year underground, trying to bring about the apocalypse but come out along with the tinsel and baubles to stick their tusks into naughty children.
Père Fouettard was a butcher who kidnapped, robbed and killed children and then carved up their bodies and hid them in barrels and follows St Nick around in France, Belgium and Switzerland, dealing with the problem children the way he knows best, and he has a large supply of barrels.
So some kids will get coal and others will be eaten by monsters and witches but other than that, it's the same thing, only with disembowelment.