Submitted by giuliomagnifico t3_zy5sef in todayilearned
The poem "A Visit From Saint Nicholas" from 1823 created a lot of what we now think of as canon Santa lore. First mention of a sleigh pulled by reindeer, for example.
The Dutch Sinterklaas had its roots about that time as well - similar thing
Pretty sure Santa Claus is actually an anglicized version of the name sinterklaas.
TIL Santa is roughly about the same age as baseball
Our modern conception of Christmas as a whole is fairly modern.
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Pretty sure you are right :)
Just gonna throw this in: reindeer love Amanita Muscaria mushrooms (the famous red one with white dots that smurfs live in?) and they get fuuuuucked up. That mushroom is so potent, Shamans in Scandinavia and Siberia would feed them to their deer, collect the urine, boil it down and drink it and also get fucked up. That's my flying reigndeer reference.
It's less about the strength and more that the deer filter out the good compounds while harmlessly absorbing some of the compounds that fuck up a human stomach pretty bad.
Ahh. Mushroom tummy, that sounds more accurate. Thanks for weighing in.
Funny how messy this is in Germany:
on 6th of Dec: St Nikolaus brings some small presents. An old man with a white beard, dressed in red and white.
on 24th of Dec: in northern Germany the "Christmas Man" (Weihnachtsmann) brings the presents. Basically Santa Claus. In roughly southern Germany the "Christ Child" (Christkind) brings the presents. It's not baby Jesus, and is instead portrayed as a girl with long, curled, blonde hair, even though it is generally considered genderless.
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