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It is an angel who leaves the gift* in Czechoslovakia. She descends on a golden chord to accompany Santa.
In Scandinavia gifts are distributed during the supper hour. They are brought by bowls of porridge on the doorstep for them. Santa comes riding on a goat instead of a reindeer.
The birds receive the largest number of gifts in Sweden. Each family places a sheaf of grain on a pole or on the fence posts for the bird’s Christmas dinner. ■ Spanish children place their straw-filled sleeves on the window sills so the Magi may ftfed their horses while they leave gifts. Hie older people fill an Urn of Fate from which the gifts are drawn on Christmas Day.
Knight Ruppert, who is the Gorman Kris (Cringle, is . represented by a young girl wearing n golden crown and gowned in n flowing white robe. She carries a small
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