rumor that Santa is "born" in 1931 by a father's advertising Coca Cola (Mr. Sundbolm this) and that his reindeer are a figment of imagination of that advertising.
In reality there are traces of a fat man dressed in red with a white beard and riding a white horse since 1863 ... was simply called Santa Claus.
An early postcards exist in the typical Santa Claus 1886.
In practice, the Coca Cola has just taken up, amplified and popularized what is already there.
Cispio But who would I'm Santa Claus?
would be Saint Nicholas, protector of children and students. The legend says that Mr. Nicholas (Bishop of Myra in Lycia in the fourth century) was born in Patara, Turkey, from a rich family, he helped a family in financial difficulties, thus saving three girls from prostitution. Mr. Nicholas dropped at night from the fireplace, where they were hung out to dry delel socks, three bags of gold coins to give the girls a gift that would allow them to marry.
This legend is also accredited in the Divine Comedy (Purgatory, XX, 31-33).
The legend was later adapted to be able to relate to children ... the threat of prostitution was replaced by simple hunger and so St. Nicholas brought bags to needy families with food, always delivered through the chimney.
So Santa Claus aka Saint Nicholas, aka Santa Claus (from Sinter Klass in Dutch) became in the popular imagination the bearer of gifts par excellence. Only that he went around the back of a donkey and not reindeer-drawn sleigh ... it seems that the latter are actually been invented by Coca Cola.
And gnomes / goblins / elves?
Well ... those were clearly taken by Nordic traditions. Perhaps there was no need to say:-P Anyway
your mother-in-law has nothing against Santa Claus, after all it is a nice fat .. and strangely enough even if it comes from a Christian tradition has been repeatedly repudiated by the Church. Mysterious mysteries !!!!!
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