German island to end ritual of spanking women with cow horn – DW – 12/02/2024
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North Sea island of Borkum has said it will stop its Klaasohm festival tradition where young men hit women on the buttocks with a cow horn.
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    39•1 day ago

    That article was even weirder and creepier than I expected. By a lot.

    Also some interesting bits from a different Austrian tradition:

    The Krampuses are now encouraged to only symbolically brush festival-goers, and not actually whip them.