FELIX: Do you believe in Santa Claus?
MAX: No.
FELIX: Neither do I. But my children do. They are still small. But do you know who they like even better than Santa Claus? His helper, Pedro Negro. Black Peter. There's an old Mexican tale that tells of how Santa Claus got so very busy looking out for the good children that he had to hire some help to look out for the bad children. So he hired Pedro. And Santa Claus gave him a list with all the names of all the bad children, and Pedro would come every night to check them out. And the people, the little kids that were misbehaving, that were not saying their prayers, Pedro would leave a little wooden donkey on their windows. And he would come back and if the children were still misbehaving, he would take them away and nobody would ever see them again.
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It has been a very long time since I saw that movie, but I have some vague recollections of that scene.
Have you looked into where the Black Peter story comes from? Is there more to it?
When I googled him I got a bunch of blogs. Heh. I mostly posted this in relation to Krampus, as he seems to me to be a corrollary.
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