"Old Santeclaus with Much Delight" is an anonymous illustrated children's poem published in New York in 1821, predating by two years the first publication...

reference to Santa's sleigh being pulled by a reindeer appears in "Old Santeclaus with Much Delight", an 1821 illustrated children's poem published in New York...

published in New York. It contained "Old Santeclaus with Much Delight", an anonymous poem describing Santeclaus on a reindeer sleigh, bringing rewards...

(schauriglustig) antics appeared in medieval church plays. A large literature, much of it by European folklorists, bears on these subjects. ... Austrians in...

sing in every key imaginable as delighted parade participants join in the cacophony. Sometimes, the Befanas dance with paradegoers and dust down the willing...

a "Fool Plough", a plough decked with ribands brought into the barn by a dozen mummers together with a grotesque "Old Bessie" (played by a man), and a...

preserves or suckets.[page needed] A cookbook from 1609, Delights for Ladies, describes boiling fruits with sugar as "the most kindly way to preserve plums."...

the earliest unambiguous references to Grýla's gender and her association with Christmas date only from the seventeenth century. In seventeenth-century...

of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold. He is a variant of Old Man Winter who is held responsible for frosty weather, nipping the fingers...

elephants are considered to be highly valuable and sacred in Thai culture, so much that any white elephant that is found must immediately be brought to the...

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1821, A New-Year’s Present, contained an illustrated poem Old Santeclaus with Much Delight in which a Santa Claus figure on a reindeer sleigh brings presents...

Pacific-facing slopes. One population in the Mexican state of Guerrero is much further inland, however, and is thought to be the ancestor of most cultivated...

it is the only species native to the British Isles and much of Europe. A related species with red fruits, rather than white, Viscum cruciatum, occurs...

They were often given as gifts, and at some point they became associated with Christmas season. They grew in popularity around the 19th century and spread...

through a legal charter. Landowners often has contracts with their tenants that laid out exactly how much wood could be collected from the forest for their...

squeeze of fresh lime juice, which is shaken with the advocaat before pouring into a glass and topping up with lemonade. In the United Kingdom, it is often...

topped with browned meringue. The dish is made of ice cream placed in a pie dish, lined with slices of sponge cake or Christmas pudding, and topped with meringue...

from an old Roman custom practised during Saturnalia, where Roman fathers in the Vatican were presented with sweetmeats. Early pies were much larger than...

with horses. These merry rides along village streets were seen in contrast to the silent and pious mood of the preceding Christmas days. Another old tradition...

agglomeration with Bethlehem. The Aida and Azza refugee camps are located within the city limits. In the center of Bethlehem is its old city. The old city consists...

28 years old (Greek original: "15 years of age"). There he faithfully farmed the taxes of that region for the Roman Senate, and he met with success in...

realises that he will never love her as much as he loves money. Finally, they visit a now-married Belle with her large, happy family on the Christmas...

debating the true authorship of the poem. Santa Claus's reindeer "Old Santeclaus with Much Delight" List of Christmas-themed literature Notes Burrows, Edwin G...

custom of chalking the door has a biblical precedent as the Israelites in the Old Testament marked their doors in order to be saved from death; likewise, the...

of straw or roughly-hewn wood could also be called the Yule goat, and in older Scandinavian society a popular Christmas prank was to place this Yule goat...

was the 'old' festival of Sol, which he ascribes to Numa, that he had celebrated immediately after the end of the Saturnalia to coincide with the winter...

Francis Pharcellus Church. Written in response to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon asking whether Santa Claus was real, the editorial was...

as kings by at least the third century, which conformed with Christian interpretations of Old Testament prophecies that the messiah would be worshipped...

(representing the light and the world respectively) which is typically decorated with a red ribbon and sweets or dried fruit. It has been a feature in Moravian...