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Author: Admin | Filed under: Christmas, Christmas Gifts, Christmas Recipes Tuesday Nov 25,2008

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Hang Your Stocking by the Chimney with Care

Author: Admin | Filed under: Christmas, Christmas History Tuesday Nov 25,2008

Christmas StockingChristmas traditions; it’s always interesting to find out where they come from and how they began so let’s find out about Christmas Stockings.

A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that children in the United States and some other cultures hang on Christmas Eve so that Santa Claus can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins, or other small gifts when he arrives. These small items are often referred to as stocking stuffers or stocking fillers. Tradition in western culture dictates that a child who behaves badly during the year will receive only a piece of coal.

But how did the tradition of hanging stockings by the fireplace begin?  One legend says that has it that St. Nicholas of Myra heard of a farmer who had three lovely daughters who feared they would never marry well because he didn’t have enough money to pay their dowries.

Knowing the farmer would never accept the money outright, St. Nicholas dropped three bags of coins into their chimney on Christmas Eve.  The young girls had each happened to have washed their stockings out and hung them by the fire to dry, so when the coins were dropped a bag landed inside each stocking.  The next morning the young girls woke to find the coins and went on to marry and live happily ever after.

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