The History of Santa Claus – Part 1

Christmas is on its way we all know
about Santa but what about babushka st.
Nicholas and black Peter hi I’m Rebecca
Brayton and welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we’ll be learning about Santa’s
counterparts from around the world
considered an ancestor of our modern-day
Santa Claus the stately form of st.
Nicholas is dressed in red and carries a
bishops crook hailing originally from
Turkey the figure historically rewards
good children one story about Saint
tells her three small children who find
themselves lost they traveled to the
house of an evil butcher who says he
will help them but ends up chopping them
into small pieces and puts them in a
pickling tub for seven years at this
time Saint Nicholas appears at the
butcher’s door explaining that he knows
what the man’s done shortly after Saint
Nicholas prays to God and this restores
the children to wholeness in life and
they return to their families this is
one of the many stories which explains
why st. Nicholas is the patron and
protector of children black Peter or
Pierre Lenoir is a companion of Saint
Nicholas seen as a chimney sweep the
soot covered man is a counterpart of
Santa Clauses elves helping the man in
red give his gifts to children black
Peter descends in the chimney before st.
Nicholas and instead of rewarding the
good children he punishes those who’ve
been bad by filling issues with turnips
stones and coal I give them