Christmas around the world

Christmas around the world

Ded Moroz

Santa Claus

Yellowpooks

Saint Nicholas

Babbo Natalle

Peer Noel

Yulebukk

Ezhenek

Shan Dan
Laozhen

Santa
Christian

Chas Khan

a majestic white-bearded old man in a red robe and mitre. Just before the New Year, he sails to Amsterdam by ship, but he does not give out gifts himself. To do this, he has a retinue of Moors in magnificent turbans. This character moves around the city on a white horse. He has a big book in which all the children's names with addresses are recorded. However, he communicates only with his parents, so children should send letters with New Year's wishes through them.

The wizard wears silk red robes and a traditional headdress. As a transport Grandfather uses a donkey loaded with sweets as a gift to children. Wizard is a sage and philosopher. In addition to magic power, he can apply physical power: people believe that the wizard is good at wushu and Aikido.

he moves in a sleigh drawn by flying deer. He enters the house through the chimney to leave gifts in socks hanging on the mantelpiece. It is customary to leave treats for him: milk and cookies.The wizard has a list in which all obedient and disobedient children are recorded.

he has a wife, Muori, who represents winter. Together they live in Lapland, on Mount Korvatunturi, which looks like the ears of an animal. Its name translates as “Big—eared Mountain". The wizard's assistants are dwarves who sit in Finnish Echo Caves for a year, listening to how children behave around the world. Before Christmas, the dwarfs sort the mail and pack gifts.

the winter character is familiar to us from childhood. He can be dressed in a blue, blue, white or red fur coat, belted with a sash. On his head — a hat, on his feet — felt boots, in his hand — a magic staff. Rides a frisky troika of horses. Grandfather is accompanied by his granddaughter Snow Maiden, and sometimes also the New Year — a boy in a red fur coat and hat. Putting a letter under the Christmas tree and finding gifts under it in the morning on January 1 is a New Year's tradition.

The good wizard is paired with his antipodean brother named Peer Fuetar.He is endowed with a white mustache and beard and wears a red fur coat with a hood. On his feet are boots with large gilded buckles. The wizard rides up to the houses on a donkey with a basket of gifts. He enters the house through the chimney, after which he lays out gifts for obedient and hardworking children in shoes left in front of the fireplace.Peer Fouetard has a black beard and a brown fur coat. Peer Fuetar always follows on the heels of a kind-hearted brother. Instead of gifts, this negative hero has a broom in store to drive naughty guys with them. So children have a good incentive for exemplary behavior!

Scandinavian Santa Claus comes accompanied by a goat loaded with gifts. He gives these gifts on December 24, and you need to try very hard to find them: every surprise is carefully hidden. Nyssa helps to distribute gifts to the wizard. These are creatures from Scandinavian legends and legends, who became the prototypes of the seven dwarfs from Disney's “Snow White”. In Norway and Denmark, nisse is revered: after all, one of their varieties is local brownies. Nisse are inconspicuous and often look after the household, as well as bring well-being and joy to the house.

The wizard comes only to those children who have written him a letter. To do this, special mailboxes are installed on the streets for messages to the wizard. he has a partner. Fairy Befana, although she looks like a witch, is not at all malicious in character. This old lady arrives to the little Italians on a broom on January 6. Some say that, according to tradition, she enters the house through the chimney, others say that she has a small golden key that can open any door. Befana gives sweets to obedient children, coals to disobedient ones. If you meet Befana in the city, you can get chocolate from her.

His appearance is very unusual. He wears a big hat with high horns. Local legends explain such a bizarre appearance of this Santa Claus. According to them, winter and frost are brought to earth by the Bull of Winter. A gigantic bull appears from the Arctic Ocean with the onset of winter. The higher his horns, the colder it will be. When it gets warm, his horns break.

This brother prefers to stay in the shadows and little is known about his appearance, because he prefers to do good deeds without being noticed. He delivers gifts on a donkey, with a broom in his hands, with which he drives away evil spirits.

children from Burundi know that a kind wizard will visit them with gifts on New Year's Eve. This Santa Claus lives on the top of Kilimanjaro — the only place where it is cold enough that the snow does not melt.

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Ded Moroz
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