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List of Christmas and winter gift-bringers (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 7 months ago by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The Dutch have St Nicholas, so do the Belgians, and many Germans have St Nicholas too. Bad Wiki page.

[–] 1stQ@feddit.org 2 points 7 months ago

Nikolaus comes December 6th, Weihnachtsmann comes December 24th in Germany. Two different figures (That are admittedly based on the same historic figure, as far as I know. Some Greek guy?). Not sure about the Dutch, but didn't Santa come from the Dutch Sinter Claas or something?