"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...

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

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...

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...

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

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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."...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

them the Hoodening of Kent, the Broad of the Cotswolds, and the Old Ball, Old Tup, and Old Horse of northern England—have led to suggestions that they derive...

the goodies upon the floor, and then the scramble would begin by the delighted children, and the other hand would ply the switch upon the backs of the...

abiding resentment. The TV special The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat lays much of the blame on the absence of the Grinch's mother, who had been a positive...

preached a sermon against the Feast of Calends ("this foolish and harmful delight") that describes the role of the mock king in Late Antiquity. The New Year's...

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...

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

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...

observed in New Orleans due to the city's strong French-Creole heritage, with a number of the city's restaurants offering special réveillon menus on Christmas...

accords with the political circumstances as we know them." The story was much elaborated in the infancy gospels of the New Testament apocrypha with, for...

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...

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...