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  2. List of Christmas and winter gift-bringers - Wikipedia

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    Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. This is a list of Christmas and winter gift-bringer figures from around the world. The history of mythical or folkloric gift-bringing figures who appear in winter, often at or around the Christmas period, is complex, and in many countries the gift-bringer – and the gift-bringer's date of arrival – has changed over time as native customs have been ...

  3. Princess Mary Christmas gift box - Wikipedia

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    Three further gift types were produced for Indian troops. [5] Most Indian troops received the box itself, cigarettes, a tin box of spices, a packet of sugar candy and a Christmas or New Year card. [5] Sikhs got the same without the cigarettes and a third gift for "followers" [note 1] consisted of a tin box of spices and a Christmas or New Year ...

  4. Christmas gift - Wikipedia

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    A Christmas gift or Christmas present is a gift given in celebration of Christmas. Christmas gifts are often exchanged on Christmas Eve (December 24), [ 1 ] Christmas Day itself (December 25) or on the last day of the twelve-day Christmas season , Twelfth Night ( January 5 ). [ 2 ]

  5. Christmas stocking - Wikipedia

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    The origin of the Christmas stocking is thought to originate in the life of Saint Nicholas. [2] [3] While there are no written records of the origin of the Christmas stocking, there are popular legends that attempt to tell the history of the Christmas tradition. One such legend has several variations, but the following is a good example: Saint ...

  6. Secret Santa - Wikipedia

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    Deriving from a tradition, the ritual is known as Secret Santa in the United States and the United Kingdom; as Kris Kringel or Kris Kindle in Ireland; as Wichteln, Secret Santa, Kris Kringle, Chris Kindle or Engerl-Bengerl in parts of Austria; as Secret Santa or Kris Kringle in Canada and Australia; as Secret Santa, Kris Kringle, or Monito-Monita in the Philippines; as Angelito in the ...

  7. 35 Most Memorable Quotes from 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas'

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    The Grinch. The Grinch can't steal our Christmas spirit, but he sure can deliver laughs. In the 2018 adaptation of Dr. Seuss' beloved children's storybook, Benedict Cumberbatch brings the mean ol ...

  8. Christmas gift-bringer - Wikipedia

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    A number of Midwinter or Christmas traditions in European folklore involve gift-bringers. Mostly involving the figure of a bearded old man, the traditions have mutually influenced one another, and have adopted aspects from Christian hagiography , even before the modern period.

  9. Christkind - Wikipedia

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    Christkind. The Christkind (German for 'Christ-child'; pronounced [ˈkʁɪstˌkɪnt] ⓘ), also called Christkindl, is the traditional Christmas gift-bringer in Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, southern and western Germany, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the eastern part of Belgium, Portugal, Slovakia, Hungary, parts of northeastern France, Upper Silesia in Poland ...