• x00z@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Interesting. I found it weird Santa looked so much like Saint Nicolas. Which we celebrate here.

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      The Dutch brought Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) to New Amsterdam, current day NYC, which has developed into Santa Claus as we know it know. Santa Claus is a phonetic derivation of Sinterklaas.

      Apparently he was depicted as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe and a green outfit in Washington Irving’s History of New York book, so maybe that’s where you got that idea from.

      Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus