Santa Clause lives in Lapland and comes with his magic sleight, dragged by reindeer. Rudolph, the reindeer with a red nose like a star, is the first in line to drag the sleight. The first Santa was called in a different way and lived in Turkey, at Mira. In the fourth century, a very wealthy Christian bishop was giving gifts to the god children and to the naughty children he was giving a birch. In the Christian celebrations, this tag is done by Saint Nicholas, on the sixth of December, every year. The story of the behavior of the bishop became known in the entire Europe and later, once with the immigrants, it arrived in America.
In December, year 1862, Thomas Nast, a caricaturist at the new-Yorker newspaper Harper’s Illustrated Weekly, drew Santa Clause, spreading the news that he lives at the North Pole and, helped by his elves, makes the entire year toys, for all the children, to give them for Christmas. But then, as the geographic discoveries evolved and attested that at the North Pole the reindeer would starve, Santa moved in Lapland. The story started to fill the imagination of all children and to council the adults to offer to the little ones happiness. So the American pastor Clement Clark Moore wrote a poem in which the Santa, fatty, with a white beard and all dressed in red, became the main subject.
The Christian Santa
The Christian story says that the wife of Santa received Virgin Mary to born in her stable, without announcing her husband. As a punishment, this man cut her hands off, but the Maiden put them back where they were, using the power of miracles. Seeing the miracle, Santa became a Christian and, felling happiness for the miracle that corrected his mean behavior toward his wife; he made a great fire, with some fir trees, and initiated sing around it, making gifts to everyone. His songs became with the passing of time the traditional Christmas songs.
An old man, at the periphery of the city, was making toys the entire year, all beautiful and unique. For Christmas, he went to the market and sold then for little money, for the joy of making smiling the children. One year, he finished all his toys, but at the window of a poor family he saw that the children will receive nothing, because they were having no money. So, rummaging, gave them a soldier.
The old man became sad, because he could not make a toy for every child in the world, especially for the poor ones. On his way home, he saw in the snow an injured hart, which he felt petty for, curing him as well as he could. As a present for his kindness, the animal fulfilled his most strong wish: to make a present for every child.
In the same instant, a magic sleight appeared, dragged by reindeers, which took the old man in a magic place, far, far away. His poor clothes became some beautiful red clothes, and in his new home were living a lot of goblins, ready to make all together toys. So, every year, they made more and more toys and much beautiful, one for every baby, according to his wishes.
Letters for Santa Clause
All the children write this wonderful letters for Santa. The girls write them a bit longer, to make them nicer to Santa, and the boys are shorter, but decided, regarding the present they want. Most of the letters full of our wishes are sent through the mail box, to be delivered in Lapland. The Scandinavians burn them, being convinced their wishes arrive to Santa through the smoke that rises to the sky. Certainly, we all wrote letters for Santa and maybe we still write him. Patient, he reads all and fulfills our wishes!!
Marry Christmas!
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