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2. James Edgar (entrepreneur) - Wikipedia

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   James Edgar (1843 – 1909) was a businessman who has been credited with being the one who first came up with the idea of dressing up as Santa Claus for Christmas. [1] He started the tradition in 1890 in his Brockton, Massachusetts , department store.

3. Old Santeclaus with Much Delight - Wikipedia

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   Gilley's book includes some important elements in the early development of Santa Claus: his connection with the northern winter, the reindeer and sleigh, and his arrival on Christmas Eve rather than on 6 December (the traditional feast day of Saint Nicholas). [2] [5] The accompanying engravings are the earliest images of a Santa figure.

4. Santa Claus - Wikipedia

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   Santa Claus doll A man dressed as Santa Claus waves to children from an annual holiday train in Chicago, 2012. Santa is generally depicted as a portly, jolly, white- bearded man, often with spectacles , wearing a red outfit consisting of jacket, trousers and hat all trimmed with white fur, accessorized with black leather belt and boots, and ...

5. Target gives Santa Claus a ‘weirdly hot’ makeover in viral ad

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   Target fans can’t get enough of the company’s new holiday campaign, which has transformed Santa Claus from sweet to sexy.. With Christmas fast approaching, the American retailer sprinkled some ...

6. Christmas stocking - Wikipedia

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   A filled Christmas stocking. A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Saint Nicholas Day or Christmas Eve so that Saint Nicholas (or the related figures of Santa Claus and Father Christmas) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives.

7. A Visit from St. Nicholas - Wikipedia

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   The cover of a series of illustrations for the "Night Before Christmas", published as part of the Public Works Administration project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms "A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St ...

8. Santa Claus's reindeer - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 January 2025. Legendary sleigh-pulling flying reindeer A parade float with a model of Santa's reindeer and sleigh in the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, 2009 In traditional Western festive legend and popular culture, Santa Claus's reindeer are said to pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus ...

9. Belsnickel - Wikipedia

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   Belsnickel (also known as Belschnickel, Belznickle, Belznickel, Pelznikel, Pelznickel, Bell Sniggle [1]) is a crotchety, fur-clad Christmas gift-bringer figure in the folklore of the Palatinate region of southwestern Germany along the Rhine, the Saarland, and the Odenwald area of Baden-Württemberg.