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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1962
Page
5
A collection of children from multiple ages write to Santa with requests spanning dolls, toy vehicles, firearms, games, and clothing. The letters express good behavior, family mentions, and Christmas hopes, including notes from late 1940s or 1950s era tone and several children naming specific toys and personal items.
Mrs C R Mote, Mrs Bryan Albro and son Tony depart Wednesday for Sulphur Springs to stay with her parents Mr and Mrs E R Kennedy and other relatives and friends.
Miss Marie Hill of Wichita Falls is spending the Christmas holidays in the home of her mother Mrs. George C. Hill and other relatives.
A survey traces how Christmas gifts and figures like Santa Claus evolved from Saint Nicholas to Kris Kringle and Knecht Rupert. It notes giftgiving myths, stocking customs, carol origins from Saturnalia, nativity songs, bees in northern England lore, Puritan bans, and early American attitudes, ending with a nod to George Washington.
The piece links Christmas into history from Hessian battles to Norse gods. It notes Yule origin from Juuul, fires for Thor, and hall superstition about a squinted or barefoot guest. It covers St Nicholas Day gifts and a postwar toy shoe tradition, plus translations of Merry Christmas across multiple languages.
In rural Germany families keep hearth fires burning for 12 nights from Christmas to Epiphany, January 6, known as Twelfth Night. The custom marks the end of Christmas rites with a communal domestic practice observed in villages.
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