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You’ve successfully subscribed to this newsletter! Jonathan G Meath portrays Santa Claus. The modern figure of Santa is based on folklore traditions surrounding Saint Nicholas, the English figure of Father Christmas, and the Dutch figure of Sinterklaas. Santa is generally depicted as a portly, jolly, white-bearded man, often with spectacles, wearing a red coat with white fur collar and cuffs, white-fur-cuffed red trousers, red hat with white fur, and black leather belt and boots, carrying a bag full of gifts for children.

He is commonly portrayed as laughing in a way that sounds like “ho ho ho”. Lycia in the Roman Empire, today in Turkey. During the Middle Ages, often on the evening before his name day of 6 December, children were bestowed gifts in his honour. This date was earlier than the original day of gifts for the children, which moved in the course of the Reformation and its opposition to the veneration of saints in many countries on 24 and 25 December. Father Christmas dates back as far as 16th century in England during the reign of Henry VIII, when he was pictured as a large man in green or scarlet robes lined with fur. In the Netherlands and Belgium, the character of Santa Claus competes with that of Sinterklaas, based on Saint Nicolas. With the Christianization of Germanic Europe, numerous traditions were absorbed from Yuletide celebrations into modern Christmas.

Wodan’s role during the Yuletide period has been theorized as having influenced concepts of St. In the English and later British colonies of North America, and later in the United States, British and Dutch versions of the gift-giver merged further. 1881 illustration by Thomas Nast who, along with Clement Clarke Moore’s 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, helped to create the modern image of Santa Claus. In 1821, the book A New-year’s present, to the little ones from five to twelve was published in New York.

It contained “Old Santeclaus with Much Delight”, an anonymous poem describing Santeclaus on a reindeer sleigh, bringing rewards to children. By 1845, “Kris Kringle” was a common variant of Santa in parts of the United States. As the years passed, Santa Claus evolved into a large, heavyset person. The story that Santa Claus lives at the North Pole may also have been a Nast creation. His Christmas image in the Harper’s issue dated 29 December 1866 was a collage of engravings titled Santa Claus and His Works, which included the caption “Santa Claussville, N.

The idea of a wife for Santa Claus may have been the creation of American authors, beginning in the mid-19th century. In 1889, the poet Katharine Lee Bates popularized Mrs. Claus in the poem “Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh Ride”. In Russia, Ded Moroz emerged as a Santa Claus figure around the late 19th century where Christmas for the Eastern Orthodox Church is kept on 7 January.

A man dressed as Santa Claus fundraising for Volunteers of America on the sidewalk of street in Chicago, Illinois, in 1902. He is wearing a mask with a beard attached. Frank Baum’s The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, a children’s book, was published in 1902. Images of Santa Claus were conveyed through Haddon Sundblom’s depiction of him for The Coca-Cola Company’s Christmas advertising in the 1930s. The image of Santa Claus as a benevolent character became reinforced with its association with charity and philanthropy, particularly by organizations such as the Salvation Army. Volunteers dressed as Santa Claus typically became part of fundraising drives to aid needy families at Christmas time.