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ports World Book Encyclopedia, gifts are believed to come from Saint Nicholas. TfTiis kindly bishop lived in .Asia Minor in the A.D. 300’s and became famous for his generosity. Children receive toys and sweets on December 6, his feast day.
Americans added a bit of fur, a reindeer-driven sleigh and a few extra pounds to the saint to create Santa Claus. His name comes from the mispronunciation of the name which Dutch settlers in New York called the saint. U
In Italy it’s La Befana, a kind of aging fairy queen, who cornea down the chimney, and in France the bearer of gifts is the Christ Child Himself, known as the Petit Noel.
Children in South America, however, still wait for the three wise men. And to compensate them for their' long journey from the East, they leave water and hay on
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