The result is a beard made of semen that resembles that of Santa. To finish the act the guy must proceed to tell "Santa" what he wants for Christmas. Who says Santa Clause only Cums once a year? That creepy guy at the mall who pops a boner in your lap when you sit down for a picture you'll just throw away in 4 months. Ho Ho Ho A man who sits in the mall and recieves lap dances from children, promising to deliver them presents in return for the favour. Those familiar Salvation Army Santas have been ringing bells on the street corners of American cities ever since.
It is Nast who gave Santa his bright red suit trimmed with white fur, North Pole workshop, elves and his wife, Mrs. Nicholas-inspired gift-giver to make an appearance at Christmastime.
There are similar figures and Christmas traditions around the world. Christkind or Kris Kringle was believed to deliver presents to well-behaved Swiss and German children. Nicholas on his holiday missions. In Scandinavia, a jolly elf named Jultomten was thought to deliver gifts in a sleigh drawn by goats. In Italy, there is a story of a woman called La Befana, a kindly witch who rides a broomstick down the chimneys of Italian homes to deliver toys into the stockings of lucky children.
In the United States, Santa Claus is often depicted as flying from his home to home on Christmas Eve to deliver toys to children. Stockings can be filled with candy canes and other treats or small toys. Santa Claus and his wife, Mrs. Children often leave cookies and milk for Santa and carrots for his reindeer on Christmas Eve. He sees you when you're sleeping He knows when you're awake He knows if you've been bad or good So be good for goodness sake! The red-nosed wonder was the creation of Robert L.
May, a copywriter at the Montgomery Ward department store. In , May wrote a Christmas-themed story-poem to help bring holiday traffic into his store. Montgomery Ward sold almost two and a half million copies of the story in When it was reissued in , the book sold over three and half million copies. It was recorded by Gene Autry and sold over two million copies. Since then, the story has been translated into 25 languages and been made into a television movie, narrated by Burl Ives, which has charmed audiences every year since But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. Christmas is celebrated on December 25 and is both a sacred religious holiday and a worldwide cultural and commercial phenomenon.
For two millennia, people around the world have been observing it with traditions and practices that are both religious and secular in nature. Christmas traditions around the world are diverse, but share key traits that often involve themes of light, evergreens and hope.
Unlike Santa , Julenisse wears grey clothes and usually has a grey beard instead of a white one. Sinterklaas is the Dutch version of Santa Claus who most resembles St. Nicholas , the patron saint of children and inspiration for the modern Santa Claus legend. Sinterklaas comes riding into town on a white horse, wearing a tall, red bishop's hat and a jeweled staff. He knocks on doors and brings gifts to good children, while his companion, Grumpus, rattles chains at naughty children and threatens to kidnap them.
Christkind or "Christ Child" is the benevolent usually female gift-bringer who leaves presents for good children on Christmas Eve, much like her more famous counterpart, Santa Claus.
She makes appearances to Lutheran families in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, and the Slovakian region, and usually appears wearing a crown and long, curly blonde hair. Christkind's angelic appearance and peaceful persona is derived from baby Jesus Christ himself, and comes from the Protestant tradition that Jesus — instead of a mythological creature like Santa or Father Frost — leaves behind presents on Christmas.
Every year, the city of Nuremberg in Germany chooses a child to play the part of the Christkind during the the holiday market and celebration known as Christkindlmarkt.
In Spain, good children are not only visited by one, but three jolly figures who disseminate presents on El Dia De Reyes , the day that the three wise men or magi finally reached baby Jesus on January 6.
In the days leading up to El Dia de Reyes, children in Spain, Mexico, and other Hispanic countries will write letters to their favorite mago — Melchor, Gaspar, or Baltasar — asking for gifts. That night, children leave out sweets for the magi and hay for the camels they ride on sound familiar? The next day, the offerings will be replaced by presents. Joulupukki , also known as the Yule goat, has been nicknamed the Finnish Santa.
Before globalism naturally combined traditional Scandinavian customs with modern-day Santa Claus, the Yule goat was a malevolent spirit associated with the Norse god Odin who knocked on doors and demanded gifts and leftovers from the Yuletide feasts.
He drives a sleigh pulled by reindeer that does not actually fly. The Yule Lads are 13 mischievous Icelandic elves — who instead of making toys in Santa's workshop — play tricks on children. Pottasleiki for instance , will steal your leftovers, while Gryla — the mother of the 13 Yule Lads — will kidnap you if you have behaved badly. During the 13 nights leading up to Christmas , Icelandic children place their shoes by the windowsill in the hopes that one of the 13 Yule Lads will leave them small gifts or candies.
Misbehaved children will instead receive rotten potatoes in their shoes. Long before the man in the red suit was bringing toys to children on Christmas, La Befana — a good-natured witch who flies around on a broomstick — was doing the same for good children in Italy.
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