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A person in a traditional Zwarte Piet costume A person in a modernized Sooty Pete costume. Zwarte Piet (Dutch: [ˈzʋɑrtə ˈpit]; Luxembourgish: Schwaarze Péiter; West Frisian: Swarte Pyt; Indonesian: Pit Hitam), also known in English by the translated name Black Pete, is the companion of Saint Nicholas (Dutch: Sinterklaas; French: Saint-Nicolas; West Frisian: Sinteklaas; Luxembourgish ...
The story was adapted for the 1968 BBC series with Peter Cushing. The episode is now lost. [5] There is a visual reference to the "Black Peter" storyline in "The Hounds of Baskerville" (2012), the second episode of the second season of the BBC series Sherlock (2010–2017).
Zwarte Piet (English: Black Peter or Black Pete, French: Père-Fouettard, meaning father whipper) is the companion of Saint Nicholas (Dutch: Sinterklaas) in the folklore of the Low Countries. The character first appeared in his current form in an 1850 book by Jan Schenkman and is commonly depicted as a blackamoor.
The origin of Black Peter is unclear, although legend has it that it was invented in gaol by the notorious criminal, Black Peter, in 1811. [1] Its rules are recorded as early as 1821 in Das Neue Königliche L'Hombre, [8] some years before those of the English game of Old Maid or Old Bachelor whose earliest rules appeared in 1835, [9] and the French game of Vieux Garçon ("Old Boy"), first ...
Black Peter (original Czech title: Černý Petr, known also as Peter and Paula [1]) is a 1964 film directed by Miloš Forman. It won the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival .
Workingman's Dead is the fourth studio album (and fifth overall) by American rock band Grateful Dead.It was recorded in February 1970 and originally released on June 14, 1970.
Johann Peter Petri, nicknamed Old Black Peter (German: Der alte Schwarzpeter) or simply Black Peter (Schwarzer Peter), (born 24 March 1752 in Burgen near Bernkastel; died after 1812) was a robber and accomplice of Schinderhannes, the notorious highwayman.
The Canary Trainer: From the Memoirs of John H. Watson is a 1993 Sherlock Holmes pastiche by Nicholas Meyer.Like The Seven Percent Solution and The West End Horror, The Canary Trainer was published as a "lost manuscript" of the late Dr. John H. Watson.