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A brownie or broonie , [1] also known as a brùnaidh or gruagach (Scottish Gaelic), is a household spirit or hobgoblin from Scottish folklore that is said to come out at night while the owners of the house are asleep and perform various chores and farming tasks.
Julemanden can be directly translated as "The Yule Man" or "The Christmas Man". [1] Julemanden is often illustrated as a short, bearded man dressed in gray clothes and a red hat. [ 2 ] He is said to bring presents on Christmas Eve (December 24), coming to houses either by foot or by sleigh, and often wears fur to keep him warm.
Christmas gift-bringers in Europe. 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.
The 1822 poem "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas," commonly called "'Twas The Night Before Christmas," furthered the narrative that Santa was ... depicted Mr. Claus as a large man with a ...
Step aside, The Christmas Chronicles , because there’s a brand-new holiday movie coming... Netflix’s ‘A Boy Called Christmas’ Is Like a Cross Between ‘The Polar Express’ and ‘The ...
The folk tales featuring the sword of light may be bridal quests, and the hero's would-be bride often becomes the hero's helper. [9] [10] [b]But also typically the story is a sort of quasi-bridal quest, [c] [12] where the hero wins a bride by wager, but then suffers a loss, becoming oath-bound (compelled by geis [d]) to never come home until he has completed the quest for the sword (and other ...
Santa Claus is known as de Kerstman in Dutch ("the Christmas man") and Père Noël ("Father Christmas") in French. For children in the Netherlands, Sinterklaas remains the predominant gift-giver in December; 36% of the Dutch only give presents on Sinterklaas evening or the day itself, 6 December, [ 15 ] while Christmas, 25 December, is used by ...
“You’re looking at an exact scale replica of the leg lamp from A Christmas Story," J.P. Michalik told WJXT. "It is 420% bigger than the one that appears in the movie, so it’s 20 feet tall."