Do All Christmas Traditions Actually Come from Christmas? (And Other Holiday Tradition Mysteries) | 42
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The Origin of Gift Wrapping
The idea of wrapping gifts in colorful or patterned papers can really trace its roots back to that chance occurrence in this little stationary store back in 1923. So let's talk about Santa because I think we cannot get through Christmas without Santa. Is it anything like Thor's? Santa was a real guy, Saint Nicholas. He was born to wealthy parents who died in the plague. And so he went into a life in the clergy and had a lot of money and really nothing to do with it. There's an old story about how there was a destitute family that he wanted to secretly help. The only problem is that houses didn't have chimneys until about 800 years after St. Nicholas died
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