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Who brings the gifts (jakubmarian.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

In Germany, Saint Nicolaus is filling boots of the nice kids with nuts, oranges and chocolate (or alike) on the morning of December 6th and also doesn't bring the Christmas gifts.
The Weihnachtsmann (or Santa Claus), however, afaIk, was imported from the US in the last century, where it had evolved from the St. Nicolaus figure.
As I'm from a 'Chist child' family, I don't know if the Weihnachtsmann actually "brings" the presents in the more northern parts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I always found the image of the Christ child lugging all the gifts around funny as an American who grew up in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

So many mandarines/clementines on Sinterklaas 😭