Is Santa real?

Question

Hold on....I'm 23 and not disillusioned or crazy...

I mean, as all myths begin, there must be some truth behind the idea of Santa.

Answer 1

To everyone who gave this question an angry "no". You missed the point. Maybe you aren't a child, now, but you were once. Have a little respect, and may you all get coal in your stockings next year.

Answer 2

We all know that each Christmas Santa travels all over the world bearing presents and good will. And surely anyone’s dream must be to make a return visit to him in his very own office? Well now you can!.

Santa’s Office far away in the North of Finland on the Arctic Circle is quite unique in that every day of the year people come from all over the world to see him there. Thousands upon thousands of them. Santa’s Office is a place where dreams come true.

These pages allow you to take a peep inside Santa’s Office. You will naturally meet the man himself, for whom the virtual world is as familiar as, say, the reindeer grazing grounds of his own home mountain or the chimneys of Manchester. And maybe you’ll find the answers to some of the questions that have been puzzling you. For there are so many strange stories about Santa going round the world, each more peculiar than the last, that they often make Santa chuckle out loud.

Having made your armchair journey, pause for a while at the section entitled A Visit to Santa and start planning a real journey - honestly!

Answer 3

Saint nick=real

santa=parents

Answer 4

There was a man named Nickolas who was an orphan and the community took care of him. He stayed at one families home for a year and then the next for a year and so on. Well the first family had some children and for Christmas which was the day he moved to the next family he had made the children a farewell gift. He was a woodworkers helper and learned a little at a time. Well basically each family he lived at who had children he started making them toys on his farewell, but he also brought something for the other families children so they would know that he didn't forget them. Well during that time he delivered chests and tables and such for the woodworker on a sled, which he would use to take the children their gifts as well. Then one day some traveling gypsies visited and the children of the community told Nickolas about the children there and that it must be sad not to be able to celebrate this time of year. So along with the children of the community the made the clearing in the woods where the gypsies were camping into a festive area, decorating the trees. That is how the Christmas tree came to be. There is much more in the story including the red suit, stockings and the chimney. If you google search the true story of Saint Nickolas you should find it. Hope this helps

Answer 5

The Santa Claus figure is a syncretic fusion of several myth figures:

(1) Saint Nikolai, or Nicholas, the most important mythic figure in Eastern Orthodox traditions other than Christ Himself. Mythic lore around Nikolai includes his saving those in trouble (sailors on the sea, poor women about to be sold into sexual slavery, those condemned by the state to death, etc.) as well as delivering gifts. His original "down the chimney" gift was three bags of gold to save three poor women from slavery (these are the same three gold balls that now appear on the signs of Pawnbrokers, for he is the patron saint of pawnbrokers). Nikolai in some myths could fly, had healing powers, and could walk on water. The historical Nikolai did exist, and was a bishop in the 4th century if my memory serves me right.

(2) There is also the Pagan precursor of Santa Claus, the Man of the Woods, a kind of color-appropriate Green Man figure. This is the original woodland spirit of Winter Solstice, the Holly King, whose worship continued after the forcible Christianization of much of Europe in the guise of Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, and ultimately Santa Claus. In the Soviet Union, where St Nikolai was as taboo as the Man of the Woods/Holly King had been under the Christians before Lenin, he was still preserved, now as the gift-giving figure of New Year's Eve, Grandfather Frost. He is a God of Winter and of coniferous trees (think of the sacred coniferous tree associated with gifts, the Christmas Tree--transparently a vestige of tree-worshipping cultures' practices at the Winter Solstice before the advent of Christianity).

Hope this helps.

Answer 6

I was taught that Santa is real and is someone who loves you. So my Santa is real (mom & dad). They're the only people who know if I'm naughty or nice all year long.

Answer 7

Yes he is as real as you want him to be, do you believe in miracles, funny how a lot of them happen at Santa time, never give up your beliefs for others and never be ashamed of what you believe in, hope Santa brings you lots of nice things this year.

Answer 8

saint nicholas is the idea in which santa has originated from as he tried to teach the little children that it is much better to give than to receive to be more kind and charitable than greedy
the image of santa was first dressed in the colour of green before the image was changed to red and commercialised by coca cola which has turned things on its head and made an already greedy society into an even greedier one especially around christmas time parents feel guilty if they do not buy their children the presents they want so they pay with cedit cards or with what ever means possible ,and lives can be ruined .the annagram for santa is satan...you have been warned!..shock horror!!

Answer 9

Santa Claus was an evolutionary creation, brought about by the fusion of two religious personages (St. Nicholas and Christkindlein, the Christ child) to become a fixed image which is now the paramount symbol of the secular Christmas celebration. In 1804, the New York Historical Society was founded with Nicholas as its patron saint, its members reviving the Dutch tradition of St. Nicholas as a gift-bringer.St. Nicholas Day dinner festivities included a woodcut of the traditional Nicholas figure (tall, with long robes) In 1821, a New York printer named William Gilley issued a poem about a "Santeclaus" who dressed all in fur and drove a sleigh pulled by one reindeer. On Christmas Eve of 1822, another New Yorker, Clement Clarke Moore, wrote down and read to his children a series of verses; his poem was published a year later as "An Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas" (more commonly known today by its opening line, "'Twas the night before Christmas . . ."). Moore gave St. Nick eight reindeer (and named them all), and he devised the now-familiar entrance by chimney. Moore's Nicholas was still a small figure, however — the poem describes a "miniature sleigh" with a "little old driver."
So sorry santa isn't real :(

Answer 10

I've never gotten the answer, but I believe in santa. If you don't believe in santa, you're dead to me! but I need the answer because, I'm 8 years old and when I grow up, I want to tell my kids the real answer

Answer 11

Yes there is truth behind Santa in the mid 14th century Europe I believe in what we used to know as Bavaria but is now part of Western Germany if my geography is correct there was a man named Nicholas Claus who made wooden toys for children to give out at Christmas time.... 200 years later the Roman Catholic churches in Italy canonized him (the process of naming human hero remains as a Saint) and he became known as Saint Nicholas in America it was known as Saint Nick or Santa Claus

So I;m not sure on my historical reference info as far as time or geographic location but yes there was a man named Nicholas Claus who we now know as Santa Claus the man the myth the legend