Do All Christmas Traditions Actually Come from Christmas? (And Other Holiday Tradition Mysteries) | 42
Call Me Curious
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The Gift-Bringer, Malone Is Your Dream
In Mexico, they have a big festival called the Night of the Radishes where it's basically like a pumpkin carving contest. Sometimes St. Nicholas will roll with this character who's horns and a long tongue and usually a whip or a birch stick or something in hand. In Russia there's their prominent gift-bringer was, is this character dead morose? I'm probably mispronouncing that, or grandfather Frost,. But he also goes around, especially in the kind of the 20th century, he was joined by his granddaughter as a character known as the Snowmaiden. So she's another female gift-bringer you'll see here and there.
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