He's making a list, checking it twice,
Gonna find out who's naughty and nice...
So if you make the "nice" list you get trinkets and candy in your stocking, and if you're on the "naughty" list it's twigs and coal?
Only in the mamby pamby USA.
In olde hard core Europe, Santa gives the "naughty" list to Krampus, who with the aid of sadistic parents, comes to scare straight the little crumbcatchers.
Krampus has a sidekick, Black Pete, to cover his back, so there's no splitting up to escape.
Japan and Korea has similar characters, so China may have also.
You've been warned, kiddos.
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