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Santa Claus Day.

Saturday, 6. December 2008, 11:41:54

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I couldn't help to show people at work how we celebrate 6 December.
On 6 December Santa comes to all the children - the good ones get sweets and some little parcels, and the naughty ones get a stick!
Everyone at work got sweets and a stick from Santa!
And then later on in the evening - when we had our little "Christmas Dinner" - Julka got her first stocking ever!

Now this is cool and dandy!

I will have to plan mixed, multi cultural Christmas this year now, that I have got the stocking!

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Comments

Hermitess 6. December 2008, 23:19

I have not heard this! Naughty people here get lumps of coal. LOL @ sticks! This sounds like a fun day, I'm glad you had such a happy one!

Nikio 7. December 2008, 09:41

How do you call the guy that comes at 6th Dec? Because it is not exactly Santa, Santa is for christmas. We call him Sveti Miklavž and it is based upon a legendary king (or some sort of royalty) Nicholas... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas_Day#Saint_Nicholas_Day

julka 7. December 2008, 10:44

Well - it all depends on the country :smile:
I think Russians have Dziadek Mróz (grandpa frost - or something like that:))
We believe it's Santa:)
Swiéty Mikolaj (basically it's the same thing, but a bit varied :wink:)

What did you get from Sveti Miklavž Nikio?

Nikio 7. December 2008, 11:22

:wink: I have got a warm glove with something on to clean the ice from car's windshield. P:

It is a funny thing; in Slovenia kids have all three of those guys; on 6th December there is Miklavž, on Christmas comes Santa (Božiček) and on Newyears eve Dedek Mraz.
I think Miklavž is the oldest, from centuries back - encouraged and promoted by christian curch. Dedek Mraz is from Yugoslavian period (there was a time when they copy/pasted Russian ideas) and Santa comes from the last 20 years, when we copy/paste American "culture". So you can imagine that not all families actually celebrate all 3 gifting rounds. On average they do 2, but in different combinations. Sometimes they give something smaller for Miklavž and something bigger for Christmas and perhaps they skip Dedek Mraz...

julka 7. December 2008, 11:27

And here - in UK - poor children have got Santa coming only once... :frown:
And they can't even open presents before the morning 25 December...

I am happy Swiety Mikolaj managed to find me here :psmurf:

SaYvLu 7. December 2008, 13:53

And, did you get something from Santa Claus? I did not, nothing. I was so sad.

julka 7. December 2008, 14:03

If Santa forgot about you (he is sooo busy!) I think you should get something for yourself in his name... if you know what I mean :smile:

I got a pen, a stocking, "Yorkshire Dialect" book, plenty sweets and some other bits and bobs.
I think I am still a big big baby:)

Hermitess 7. December 2008, 15:27

Niko you get gifts on new years too? :yikes: we only get gifts once. Here St. Nicholas & Santa Clause & Chris Kringle are all pretty much the same person & visits on Dec 24, late in the night with a sleigh & 8 flying reindeer.
The reindeer are called Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixon, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, & on foggy nights he adds Rudolph with his glowing red nose!

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