Becoming St. Nicholas

12/6/2023

Today, December 6th, is St. Nicholas Day, and my Wizard looked so good as a Bishop, that I decided to make him a St. Nicholas costume.

He already moonlights as Santa Claus on occasion, but there's way more traditional Christmas figures than the American Santa Claus. There's Father Christmas, Pere Noel, Kris Kringle, Father Frost, and St. Nicholas. Even though in North America all those names are used interchangeably for Santa Claus, they are in truth all individual, unique characters with their own traditions.

St. Nicholas traditionally arrives with his white horse, on December 5th, from Spain.

That evening he rides his horse across the roof tops, while his servants deliver small gifts down the chimneys to all the good children.

He's also a much older character, dating way back to the twelfth century, so he'll be able to appear in my Medieval Fantasy world in future stories.

Danyda

12/6/2023 11:52:45 am

When I lived in the Netherlands back in the 70s, we loved the St. Nicholas (Sinterklaas) tradition and put our shoes outside our bedroom door. Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet came to our school and put our 5th grade teacher in the sack which amused us kids a great deal. Now I'm fancying pfeffernusse :-)

Nancy

12/6/2023 12:30:35 pm

Lovely costume. It’s nice how he can work into your stories set in the past.

Dorothy

12/6/2023 02:50:57 pm

I love the story. You are right, Santa Claus, dominates are of the stories down here and we don't learn of other traditions. Thank you for sharing this one.

I love that St. Nicholas is wearing mittens. After all he is human and his hands get cold.

Donna

12/6/2023 06:51:56 pm

He makes a wonderful St. Nicholas! He looks both kindly and elegant at the same time. The costume is lovely.

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