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How Santa became e tra ition:
The tradition that Santa Claus is the giver
of Christmas presents comes to us from a
fourth century German legend of St.
Nicholas (Santa Claus is a German corrup-
tion of the name). When St. Nicholas learn-
ed of three young women who were unable
to attract suitors because their father was
too poor to provide them with a dowry, he
filled three bags with gold one night and
threw them into the windows of the rooms of
the young women. Soon after, they were all
happily married. Unexpected gifts were
thereafter attributed to St. Nicholas.
The myth that Santa Claus descends the
chimney to fill the stockings comes from the
Norsemen. Their legend tells us that at the
winter solstice the goddess Hertha appeared
in their fireplaces and brought with her hap-
piness and good fortune.
Dr. Clement Clarke Moore, a professor in
the General Theological Seminary in New
York, put the myth in the form of a poem,
"The Visit of St. Nicholas." He invented the
sleigh and the reindeer and his description
of St. Nicholas was suggested by the ap-
pearance of a German man -of -all -work in
his employ. The sleigh bells were suggested
by the bells on the bridle of his own horse.
He wrote the poem for his children in 1822
and read it to them on Christmas Eve off that
year. This poem has become the foundation
of our own rich American tradition about
Santa Claus.
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