
Part One: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas
Behind the Bastards
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The Finns' Fucking Where Goat
Santa Claus is a mix of old Saint Nick and Julepukki, the Christmas goat who was a pre-Christian figure. Sometimes he's an invisible spirit who helps bring in the new year by helping the light return. And then like St. Nicholas, the whole thing with him is that, well, that's the Protestants fault. I think we'll get to that later.
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