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The Saint Nicholas Day is now celebrated on Dec. 6 in Ukraine though 🙂

in Italy is more popular and felt Santa Lucia than Santa Claus, children wait anxiously for December 13, much more than 25

Half of Bosnia and Herzegovina celebrates christmas we say djed mraz

Who **the fuck** is John Chimney?

“In 1856, Alexander Afanasyev, a lover of Slavic antiquities who could be called a folklorist, but there was no such word at that time, published the first collection of Russian folk tales, which he collected and recorded from the words of peasants, coachmen, and traveling merchants. This has never been done in Russia before: Afanasyev was inspired by the example of the brothers Grimm, who collected German fairy tales in the same way, and then published them in a separate book. A folk tale about Morozko appears in Afanasyev’s collection: it is a winter spirit who gives tricky assignments to two girls who met him in the winter forest . But even earlier, in 1841, a fairy tale with the same plot was published by Vladimir Odoevsky. Moreover, he clearly knew the folk text. The romantic writer, who, like the brothers Grimm, sees the true spirit of the people in fairy tales, could not pass by such a story. After removing cruelty and strengthening the educational intonation, he wrote the fairy tale “Frost Ivanovich” for children.
In both the literary and folk versions, a kind girl, and then her lazy stepsister, is sent to Moroz Ivanovich (in folklore, Morozko). But in a folk tale, an old woman sends her adopted daughter to the winter forest to get rid of her. And in Odoevsky’s fairy tale, no one is going to kill a kind girl, it’s just that a minor nuisance happens to her: she drops a bucket into a well — the nanny sends her missing.
Odoevsky’s romantic Frost Ivanovich is an old man covered in frost who lives in an icy hut at the bottom of a cold well. The events in the fairy tale take place in the summer — he needs to hide somewhere! And the folk Frost jumps from branch to branch on frozen trees in the forest. Both Frosts are experienced by the girls who meet on the way. In the popular version, the test is more severe: Morozko tries to scare them with cold and pain. In the literary version, the heroines receive simple tasks: fluffing a feather bed, cleaning the house and cooking (after all, every girl should have had these skills). These tasks, which Moroz Ivanovich gives, in a sense became the prototype of the famous New Year’s challenge: to receive a gift, you need to stand on a stool and tell a poem to Ded Moroz (Santa Claus).
As a result, the folklore Morozko gives a hardworking girl a rich dowry (and now she can successfully marry) — the limit of dreams in a peasant family. The literary Frost Ivanovich offers her to “pin up a diamond kerchief” as a souvenir. And finally, lazy girls also have a different fate: Morozko kills them, and Moroz Ivanovich just leaves them without a diamond. In 1863, Nikolai Nekrasov wrote the poem “Frost Red Nose”, the plot of which is simple and sad. Peasant Daria’s husband is dying, and she is burying him. Winter is coming.
To save her children, Daria goes to the forest for firewood, where she freezes to death. Her death is described as a meeting with Voivode Frost, whose image is directly borrowed from the fairy tale “Morozko”. Nekrasov’s Frost also walks through the trees and tests the heroine, asking: “Is it warm for you, young lady?” The description of Voivode Frost’s march through the winter forest is included in all anthologies and textbooks: The wind is not raging over the forest, Streams did not run from the mountains — Moroz-voivode of the watch He goes around his possessions. The good Frost Ivanovich Odoevsky and the severe Frost-governor Nekrasov from the literature of the 19th century gradually merge into the familiar image of Ded Moroz (Santa Claus).”

Poland should have status: It’s complicated.

In The Netherlands, it’s Sinterklaas (Sint Nicholas) on 5th of december, and is not related to christmas.
We also have “christmas man” on christmas, which was blown over as yet another capitalist consumerism from the united states. Despite all the pushback against americanisms, most people still end up succumbing to all the marketing from companies and it becomes a tradition.
In some circles it is suggested the american concept of christmasman/santa claus actually came from our Sinterklaas.

Romania has both Saint Nicholas(Sfantul Nicolae) and Old Man Christmas(Mos Craciun)

Sinterklaas / Saint Nicholas for Netherlands on December 5th and Belgium on December 6th.

In Italy it’s not Babbo Natale OR Befana OR Santa Lucia.

It’s Babbo Natale AND Befana AND Santa Lucia. Plus, in Friuli we have the falò, which is on the 5th of January (I think) and every village EVERYWHERE does a massive bonfire in tradition to see where the smoke blows to know if it will be a good harvest next year, and everyone just drinks and eats and drinks and eats and drinks and eats.

By the time the holidays are done and you’ve brought three different sets of gifts to everyone on different days and had ten different lunches and dinners with ten different family members and whatnot over a two week period, not counting the quadruple bypass and liver transplant you will need after New Year’s Eve, you’re actually ready to go back to work.

Catalunya’s tradition is hilarious. It’s literally a log with a smiley face on it that “poops” presents, but only after the kids beat it with sticks while singing a song encouraging the log to poop.

The Netherlands arguable also has a Christ child like the green area in central Europe.

https://youtu.be/4NoD5rzsziA?si=XytE4LlJSC9GZ-wD