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A Santa suit is a suit worn by a person portraying the legendary figure Santa Claus.The modern American version of the suit can be attributed to the work of Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly magazine, although it is often thought that Haddon Sundblom designed the suit in his advertising work for The Coca-Cola Company.
Pope Benedict XVI sporting a rare appearance of a camauro, December 2005. Pope John XXIII, the last pope to commonly wear a camauro, was buried wearing one.. A camauro (from the Latin camelaucum and from the Greek kamelauchion, meaning "camel-skin hat") is a cap traditionally worn by the pope, the head of the Catholic Church.
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 ...
Sinterklaas is the basis for the North American figure of Santa Claus. It is often claimed that during the American War of Independence , the inhabitants of New York City, a former Dutch colonial town ( New Amsterdam ), reinvented their Sinterklaas tradition, as Saint Nicholas was a symbol of the city's non-English past. [ 55 ]
Santa Claus is a folkloric figure in many Western cultures associated with Christmas. Santa Claus may also refer to: Entertainment. Santa Claus: A Morality, a 1946 ...
1900s illustration of Saint Nicholas and Krampus visiting a child. The Krampus (German: [ˈkʁampʊs]) is a horned anthropomorphic figure who, in the Central and Eastern Alpine folkloric tradition, is said to accompany Saint Nicholas on visits to children during the night of 5 December (Krampusnacht; "Krampus Night"), immediately before the Feast of St. Nicholas on 6 December.
In some children's Christmas legends and Western folklore, the geographic North Pole is described as the location of Santa Claus' workshop and residence. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] Canada Post has assigned postal code H0H 0H0 to the North Pole (referring to Santa's traditional exclamation of " Ho ho ho !").