A tradition that precedes Christmas celebrations in one of the Czech villages is that people walking like demons walk through the streets of the village shook strings, ring bells, and search from house to house for children with bad behavior.
In fact, this tradition that precedes Christmas celebrations in the Czech village of Falasca Polanka and which appears to be evil is a celebration of Saint San Nicholas who lived in the fourth century AD and appears in a special costume to calm children by giving them candy.
The village's young people see that hunting about 40 shapes of sheepskin masks on the ice is innocent pleasure.
"The tradition is beautiful, and we are enjoying it. We are running from these demons, and they are chasing us. It is horrific," said Wenceslas Kosubic, a boy from Falasca Polanka, some 330 km southeast of Prague.
One of the demons, wearing a 40-year-old mask on his face, was criticized by his father for creating masks such as those known as Karambas that people wear during Christmas in central Europe.