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Seabury Quinn's 1948 novel Roads draws from historical legends to tell the story of Santa and the origins of Christmas. Other modern additions to the "story" of Santa include Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, the 9th and lead reindeer created in 1939 by Robert L. May, a Montgomery Ward copywriter, and Nibud Pers, persberichten" (in Dutch). NIBUD. 2003. Archived from the original on 14 December 2009. Netherlands budget institute table showing money spent by households categorised into those that give gifts only on Sint (36%), only on Christmas day (21%), on both days (26%) Kürti, Lázsló (2020). " "DO YOU WANT TO BE KRAMPUS?" Santa Claus, globality and locality of Christmas tradition". Hungarian Studies Yearbook. Sciendo. 2 (1): 128, 134. doi: 10.2478/hsy-2020-0010. S2CID 231955746. Victor, Daniel (25 December 2018). "Kids, Please Don't Read This Article on What Trump Said About Santa Claus". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 4 September 2023. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many Santa grottos were not operating for the 2020 Christmas season. Due to this, some companies offered video calls for a fee using apps such as Zoom where children could speak to an actor who was dressed as Santa Claus. [74]

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In 2006, according to the UPU's 2007 study and survey of national postal operations, France's Postal Service received the most letters for Santa Claus or " Père Noël" with 1,220,000 letters received from 126 countries. [82] France's Postal Service in 2007 specially recruited someone to answer the enormous volume of mail that was coming from Russia for Santa Claus. [78]Connelly, Mark (2000). Christmas at the Movies: Images of Christmas in American, British and European Cinema. I.B.Tauris. p.186. ISBN 9781860643972. A chapter on representations of Christmas in Soviet cinema could, in fact be the shortest in this collection: suffice it to say that there were, at least officially, no Christmas celebrations in the atheist socialist state after its foundation in 1917. See also: Paternalistic deception Parent-initiated activities, like visiting a Santa actor at a shopping center, promote belief in Santa Claus by young children. [139] a b "The Pagan Origins of Santa Claus". Learn Religions. Archived from the original on 1 January 2023 . Retrieved 1 January 2023. See also: Santa's workshop §Location The Santa Claus Village in Lapland Santa's House at Jerusalem Old City, St. Peter Street

Early representations of the gift-giver from Church history and folklore, especially St Nicholas, merged with the English character Father Christmas to create the mythical character known to the rest of the English-speaking world as "Santa Claus" (a phonetic derivation of " Sinterklaas" in Dutch).

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