Pickle Nick!
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An interesting side note I just discovered on Wikipedia:
The boots-filled-over-night tradition is based on another legend of him throwing gold pieces through the window of three poor daughters so that their dad doesn't have to force them to become prostitutes.
Didn't expect the roots of St.Nicholas traditions to be that dark...
I say we all take a leaf out of the conservative playbook and demand to bring back the real Santa.
Not sure about that.
Traditional figures like Zwarte Piet might also reappear...
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Those children look like very wrong.
We've all read Pet Semetary, right?
Stop looking at their asses
i'm more looking at the chest hair
it's the back abs, for me
The painter had never seen a child, so, I think he did a nice job.
They remind me of Attack on Titan, but miniature.
Attack on a bunch of short dudes.
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"resurrected the pickled children" goes hard.
Resurrected Pickled Children sounds like a good metal band.
Ok so he just let people starve instead of having them have even three measly pickled children. Fucking priests, the REAL Jesus would have turned those three kids into a pickled feast feeding at least five thousand.
Don't worry, it's a made up story anyway
you mean to tell me there wasn't actually a depickling necromancer roaming the streets?
Now I am imagining an anthropomorphic cucumber going around turning my pickles into seeds and planting them in soil.
That guy exists. His name is Rick.
Never thought I'd see this combination of words in my lifetime
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Whenever he’s brought up I never miss the opportunity to mention that he was from Türkiye
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fuck now i want doner
Here in Flanders and to the north in the Netherlands we actually get told this story. Sinterklaas, who visits on the eve of the 5th (NL) or during the night (BE) is our OG Santa Claus.
For kids Sinterklaas is the main event, whereas Christmas is when you get given… socks. Last few years the focus seems to have shifted more to Christmas though.
Glad we got rid of ‘Zwartepiet’ though (Sinterklaas’s helpers). Think ‘elves’ except human-size, not-elf and with blackface.
I grew up attending international schools. Seeing my Dutch classmate dressed as zwartepiet getting called to the principal’s office is a core memory.
We also celebrate saint Nick on 5-6th of december. We never had the weird zwartepiet but Miklavž (ole Nick is accompanied by angels and krampus)
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From the Wikipedia page for Saint Nicholas
Other early stories tell of him calming a storm at sea, saving three innocent soldiers from wrongful execution, and chopping down a tree possessed by a demon.
Which he then turned into a toy car and gave to my kids to play with. Cause I fucking swear my kids are possessed.
Last one is just plot of Samurai Jack.
he also got into a fist fight at the nicean council
His necromancer career lacked longevity which is a key metric to determine memory.
Nah mate they (used to maybe? idk) play that song to children in schools where I grew up. The song literally says that the butcher kills the children, chop them off and cure them in salt. I never saw it that way but it's quite a hardcore children song. I wonder if they still do that lol.
Where are you from?
I'm going to guess France
Some Dutch person also mentioned that it is part of the story the kids get told.
I'm fairly certain only a small subset of (religious) children are told that story. It's not a part of the 'normal' stories at least.
1 going on 30 with those bald spots.
Reason might be that it weren't kids in the variant of the legend the painting is based on, but a kind of medieval travelling clerics on their way to Athens. Says so in the German Wikipedia.
Medieval paintings didn't care for realistic size comparisons, so might well have been misinterpreted as kids in later times.
Maybe St. Nick half-assed the sign of the cross. So when the traveling clerics were resurrected, they got resurrected in fun sized.
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Renaissance Artist Draw An Actual Child Challenge: Impossible
"The pickled children" sounds like a metal band name
I was gonna say St. Nick and the Pickled Children and call it a garage band.
Saint Picholas
There was also that time he slapped a bishop for teaching the heresy that Jesus was less than God
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Santa also punched a dude at the Council of Nicea
Is Santa Saint Nicholas of Myra? Because where I live, Nikolaus and Santa are two different entities. One has a bishop's rod and hands out candy at December 6th, the other drinks coca cola, rides a sleigh and hands out presents at Christmas.
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Remember when Christians used to care for the hungry?
He also lived in what is today Turkey, and has probably never seen a reindeer.
The Santa job required relocation and new means of transportation.
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That was a pre-jolly Saint Nicholas.
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