December is definitely, the most beautiful month of the year and the entire world is dressed in Christmas clothes. We see all around us Christmas Trees and images with Santa Claus and everybody is waiting the visit of the most important ‘character’ of this month, I mean the visit of Santa.
According to a tradition, which can be traced to the 1820s, Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, with a large number of magical elves, and nine (originally eight) flying reindeer. Since the 20th century, in an idea popularized by the 1934 song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town", Santa Claus has been believed to make a list of children throughout the world, categorizing them according to their behavior ("naughty" or "nice") and to deliver presents, including toys, and candy to all of the good boys and girls in the world, and sometimes coal to the naughty children, on the single night of Christmas Eve. He accomplishes this feat with the aid of the elves who make the toys in the workshop and the reindeer who pull his sleigh.
Santa Claus is generally depicted as a plump, jolly, white-bearded man wearing a red coat with white collar and cuffs, white-cuffed red trousers, and black leather belt and boots and he looks in the same way all over the world, even if he has different names, for example he is also known as: Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle or simply "Santa" or he has European names as it follows:
-‘Moş Crăciun’- in Romanian(Romania);
-‘Papa Noel’- in Spainish(Spain);
-‘Le Pere Noel’- in French(France);
- ‘Froehliche Weihnachten’- in German(Germany);
-‘Babbo Natale’- in Italian(Italy).
I choose to post this article about Santa because in a week or something like that he is supposed to come in our town and it is an invitation to believe in magic, in fairytales and in the existence of Santa Claus (even if we all know the truth it’s good to have a dream) so Merry Christmas to everybody and I hope you’ll receive a lot of gifts!!!!
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