Knecht Ruprecht, or Hans Ruprecht, manservant to Saint Nicholas in German folklore and figure in a Nuremberg Christmas procession. The pockets of his long coat are filled with children. He appears in Le Compree Rupert, Knecht Ruprecht. Apres une gravure sur bois du XVIIe siecle. Lithograph after a 17th-century woodcut from Henry Rene d’Allemagne’s Recreations et Passe-Temps, Games and Pastimes, Hachette, Paris, 1906.

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