The History of Santa Claus - Comments

Lol I knew most of this, but yeah it's written very well! :)

Interesting that Finland wasn't once meantioned in this article tho Santa is known to live here... We call himm Joulupukki here.

Thanks for the great read! I knew of the original Saint Nick, but the other stuff I didn't know. Who says I can't learn anything from a writing site? :P

The coca cola company is responsible for the red and white colours of his outfit?! That's something I did not know.

I love your article. It is very well detailed and an interesting read!

In Belgium we still celebrate Sinterklaas on December 6. Santa Claus is someone I mainly remember from growing up watching American Christmas movies.
Therefore, I did not know a lot of these things and it was very interesting to read. The article also flow well, good job!

I love the fullness and the flow in this article. It was wonderfully written and very informative.
It would have been nice, though, to know where you'd gotten your information, since it's fact and this is an article.
However, great job:]

That was all extremely interesting. Great article. :)

I knew he was different from how he is now, so many years ago, but I hadn't known the full story. It's cool. :)

v From what I remember from past history classes, Christmas started being celebrated when it is to coincide with other pagan 'holidays' as a way for the ruler of the time (the ruler who first declared it as a holiday) to work Christian beliefs into the Pagan society that was the majority then (though becoming the minority quickly). Christmas in itself was always meant to celebrate the birth of Christ (so a 'Christian' holiday) but it fused with pagan traditions to make the transition easier (and more easily accepted) by the pagans.

But Santa Claus wasn't something that popped up until way way after.

And I thought Christmas was originally a pagan holiday.