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Khazan, Olga (21 December 2014). "When Do Kids Stop Believing in Santa?". The Atlantic . Retrieved 4 September 2023. The tradition of Santa Claus being said to enter dwellings through the chimney is shared by many European seasonal gift-givers. [50] In pre-Christian Norse tradition, Odin would often enter through chimneys and fire holes on the solstice. [ citation needed] In the Italian Befana tradition, the gift-giving witch is perpetually covered with soot from her trips down the chimneys of children's homes. [ citation needed] Christmas Eve A man dressed as Santa Claus waves to children from an annual holiday train in Chicago, 2012. Countries whose national postal operators answer letters to Santa and other end-of-year holiday figures, and the number of letters received in 2006: Germany (500,000), Australia (117,000), Austria (6,000), Bulgaria (500), Canada (1,060,000), Spain (232,000), United States (no figure, as statistics are not kept centrally), Finland (750,000), France (1,220,000), Ireland (100,000), New Zealand (110,000), Portugal (255,000), Poland (3,000), Slovakia (85,000), Sweden (150,000), Switzerland (17,863), Ukraine (5,019), United Kingdom (750,000). a b "How to deal with the 'is Santa real?' ". The Dominion Post. Archived from the original on 19 December 2010 . Retrieved 7 November 2011. Krampus— in German-speaking Alpine folklore, a horned figure who, during the Christmas season, punishes children who have misbehaved

In 1087, while the Greek Christian inhabitants of Myra were subjugated by the newly arrived Muslim Seljuq dynasty, and soon after their Greek Orthodox church had been declared to be in schism by the Catholic church (1054 AD), a group of merchants from the Italian city of Bari removed the major bones of Nicholas's skeleton from his sarcophagus in the Greek church in Myra. Over the objection of the monks of Myra the sailors took the bones of St. Nicholas to Bari, where they are now enshrined in the Basilica di San Nicola. Sailors from Bari collected just half of Nicholas' skeleton, leaving all the minor fragments in the church sarcophagus. These were later taken by Venetian sailors during the First Crusade and placed in Venice, where a church to St. Nicholas, the patron of sailors, was built on the San Nicolò al Lido. St. Nicholas' vandalized sarcophagus can still be seen in the St. Nicholas Church in Myra. This tradition was confirmed in two important scientific investigations of the relics in Bari and Venice, which revealed that the relics in the two Italian cities belong to the same skeleton. Saint Nicholas was later claimed as a patron saint of many diverse groups, from archers, sailors, and children to pawnbrokers. [4] [5] He is also the patron saint of both Amsterdam and Moscow. [6]Writing in Mothering, writer Carol Jean-Swanson makes similar points, noting that the original figure of St. Nicholas gave only to those who were needy and that today Santa Claus seems to be more about conspicuous consumption: Lehr, Sarah. "Meet the parents who don't keep Santa's secret". Lansing State Journal. Archived from the original on 28 December 2021 . Retrieved 15 July 2020. Sirén, Ilkka. "Does Santa Claus come from Finland?". www.bbc.com. Archived from the original on 19 April 2021 . Retrieved 11 December 2018.

Operation Santa Claus at James Farley Post Office 2012 | Operation Santa Claus – Santa's Blog". 15 November 2011. Archived from the original on 28 November 2011 . Retrieved 10 December 2011. Daley, Jason. "When Do Children Give Up on Santa?". Smithsonian Magazine . Retrieved 4 September 2023. See also: Santa's workshop §Santa Claus grottos and department stores Eaton's Santa Claus Parade, 1918, Toronto, Canada. Having arrived at the Eaton's department store, Santa is readying his ladder to climb up onto the building. Representation of Santa Claus in Italy Dunlap, David W. (25 December 2015). "1933 - P.S., Virginia, There's a New York Times, Too". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 24 December 2021 . Retrieved 25 August 2022.a b Woolley, Jacqueline (23 December 2006). "Opinion | Do You Believe in Surnits?". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 28 March 2017 . Retrieved 1 January 2023. Eddy, Mary Baker (1925). Miscellany, p. 261, in Prose Works other than Science and Health. Trustees under the will of Mary Baker G. Eddy, Boston, USA. In 1937, Charles W. Howard, who played Santa Claus in department stores and parades, established the Charles W. Howard Santa School, the oldest continuously-run such school in the world. [40] See also: Paternalistic deception Parent-initiated activities, like visiting a Santa actor at a shopping center, promote belief in Santa Claus by young children. [139] Mary Ann Georgantopoulos (23 December 2007). "Miracle on Mass. Ave.: City Santa takes suit seriously". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016 . Retrieved 13 November 2010. Santa Claus is coming to town. More accurately, he's from town—Cambridge that is. Jonathan Meath is the perfect fit for a Santa.

Use a permeant marker to write the name of the game pieces on the t-shirt and pants. I used all capitol letters to make it consistent. My goal was to space out the words so no group of words was too close together and all could be read easily. Sinterklaas Arrival—Amsterdam, the Netherlands". St. Nicholas Center. 2008. Archived from the original on 17 January 2011 . Retrieved 9 September 2014.For a Jolly Good Time, Chat With Santa on Windows Live Messenger, 13 Dec 2006". Microsoft. Archived from the original on 24 October 2007 . Retrieved 9 December 2010. Armstrong, Ralph (1875). Seaverns, Fanny P. (ed.). "A letter from Colorado". The Nursery. Vol.18. John L. Shorey. p.43. Santa Mail – Letters to Santa". Archived from the original on 12 November 2020 . Retrieved 25 November 2014. Kürti, Lázsló (2020). " "DO YOU WANT TO BE KRAMPUS?" Santa Claus, globality and locality of Christmas tradition". Hungarian Studies Yearbook. Sciendo. 2 (1): 128, 134. doi: 10.2478/hsy-2020-0010. S2CID 231955746. SantaWatch: Hunt for Santa to Include Clues from the International Space Station, by Dreamtime, 18 Dec 2000". Dreamtime. 18 December 2000. Archived from the original on 27 December 2021 . Retrieved 11 December 2010.

The 1956 popular song by George Melachrino, "Mrs. Santa Claus", and the 1963 children's book How Mrs. Santa Claus Saved Christmas, by Phyllis McGinley, helped standardize and establish the character and role of Mrs. Claus in the US. [41] a b c Kutner, Lawrence (21 November 1991). "Children can learn the wrong lessons from little lies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 8 February 2023 . Retrieved 24 April 2023.Davis, Derek H. (18 November 2010). The Oxford Handbook of Church and State in the United States. Oxford University Press. pp.334–. ISBN 9780190208783. Archived from the original on 1 September 2023 . Retrieved 20 December 2017. In Russia, Ded Moroz emerged as a Santa Claus figure around the late 19th century [35] where Christmas for the Eastern Orthodox Church is kept on 7 January. Victor, Daniel (25 December 2018). "Kids, Please Don't Read This Article on What Trump Said About Santa Claus". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 4 September 2023. In Latin America, letters are sometimes tied to balloons instead of being sent through the mail. [91] Say hello to Santa Claus, November 24, 2010 by Zhao Hongyi". Beijing Today. Archived from the original on 1 December 2011 . Retrieved 12 December 2010.