This year's controversial Klaasohm festival on the north-western German island of Borkum was peaceful with no assaults reported, unlike in previous years, local police and city officials said early on ...

The North Sea island of Borkum is reacting to a recent report looking into how a 200-year-old tradition has enabled young men to hit women on the buttocks with a cow's horn. Most people in Germany ...

A centuries-old tradition in Germany's Borkum in which young men hit women on the buttocks with cattle horns during the Klaasohm festival has been discontinued and a safety plan put in place. Most ...

The German island of Borkum has long celebrated the Klaasohm festival, a tradition rooted in pagan customs. However, following allegations of assault and a revealing television exposé, the annual ...

As the German island of Borkum prepares for its annual ‘Klaasohm’ festival, police say they will step up patrols to stop the now outlawed tradition of men beating women's bottoms with cow horns. As ...

BERLIN — An annual festival on a German North Sea island that had drawn criticism over a practice of men hitting women with cow’s horns passed without reports of assaults this year, police said Friday ...

A German festival that drew controversy after reports of women being beaten with cow horns passed without incident this year when the practice was banned, police said Friday. The annual Klaasohm ...

21:38, Sat, Dec 6, 2025 Updated: 21:41, Sat, Dec 6, 2025 A bizarre Christmas tradition which has been going on since for nearly 200 years in Germany has finally been banned. The Klaasohm festival on ...

Documentary exposes violence at festival of Klaasohm on North Sea island of Borkum James Jackson is a Berlin-based journalist, documentary maker and presenter, as well as host of the Mad in Germany ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 2023 documentary exposed a German island's brutal Christmas traditionLars Penning/dpa/picture alliance Most people in Germany ...