What about the other stories?
Ok so it turns out Santa Claus vs. Krampus was really just a crazy guy's psychotic delusion but what about the other people? Were there really changelings in the woods or a teen mom ghost haunting the school?
shareIt seems to me that this is the result of the other stories:
Aunt Etta:
Krampus was the groundskeeper who got killed then it inhabits the body of the daughter?
Changeling:
There were troll changlings, she gets the son and we fade out to her embracing him (why she didn't get killed, I have no idea)
School Basement:
This is the one I feel least satisfied with. The ghost baby is possessing the newly fertilized egg within the redhead's womb? and everyone but her dies, I guess.
Spoilers here...
Krampus is a Christmas "spirit" but accounts for those with darker feelings (whereas Santa Claus embodies the merrier side of Christmas). The remaining daughter caught on to Aunt Etta's plan to kick her family out of the house so that Krampus (who had embodied the groundskeeper) would be inclined to go after the family instead of Aunt Etta's. Being angry at Aunt Etta allowed Krampus to inhabit her nieces body.
The mother in the woods. My take is this: that guy only cared to get the changeling back and convinced mom to bring it back with the promise of helping her be reunited with her son. After getting the changeling back, he didn't really care about her son or know where he was...he lied the whole time. Mom, feeling angry and betrayed, shot the man. He said the changelings were afraid of him, so I suspect at least some tension and dislike between him and the changelings. I think the changeling not kill mom and returned her son as gratitude for having killed the man who kept them locked in the grove.
As for the one with the baby? Didn't care much for that story and stopped paying attention. I have no opinion about that one.