Where did the idea of the Christmas stocking come from?

Answer 1

according to my mother's cousin, it originated in germany. on christmas eve, children would place their shoes on the front step. if they were good, their shoes were filled with sweets and trinkets. if they were bad, a character called "Black Peter" would fill them with coal!! after a while, it was decided it would be just more convenient to bring them inside. years passed, and the shoe was replaced with a stocking, as a stocking is stretchy, and can hold more loot!!

Answer 2

Once there was a father with three beautiful daughters. Although the daughters were kind and strong, the father despaired of them ever making good marriages, because he didn't have enough money to pay their dowries.

One day, St. Nicholas of Myra was passing through their village and heard the locals discussing the plight of these poor girls. St Nicholas knew the father would be too proud to accept an outright gift. So he waited till dark, snuck to the man's house, and dropped three bags of gold coins down the chimney.

The daughters had spent the evening washing clothes, and had hung their stockings by the fireplace to dry. The gold coins dropped into the stockings, one bag for each daughter. In the morning, they awoke to find enough money to make them each a generous dowry, and all married well and happily.

As word of St. Nicholas' generosity spread, others began to hang their stockings by the fireplace, hoping for a similar gift.
By tradition, the stocking is hung on the fireplace, but, since many modern homes do not have fireplaces, stockings may be hung in almost any location.

The tradition started up in Germany. One traditional practice is to reserve the stocking for five gifts that stimulate each of the five senses, for example:

Something to eat, like fruit or candy.
A toy or other item that makes a noise (this can even include nuts to crack).
An item that is visually pleasing in any way like jewelry, cuff-links or a coloring book.
Something that has tactile appeal such as modeling clay, a soft toy, lingerie or a pair of novelty Christmas socks.
Any item with a distinctive scent such as bubble-bath, cologne, perfume, etc.

Answer 3

f this is a serious question then you should read the autobiography of santa clause and then you would know many years ago there was a priest named nicholas who realizeing at a young age that he was very fortunate and wanted to do something nice for the people who struggled so he met a father with three daughters he wanted to marry off but had no money so while the young women slept there stockings where drying on the fireplace nicholas dropped a gold coin into each stocking hint the saying hung on the fireplace with care.

Answer 4

It was from a poor man with 3 daughters. They needed to get married and he didnt have money for their dowries. St Nich, or some kind priest over heard in the town the problem this man had and one night he threw gold coins in their window or down the fireplace. The girls had put their handwashed stockings up by the fireplace to dry overnight, and the coins fell into or near them.
The kind gesture enabled the girls to all get married, and the generousity excited other people in the town who started to put stockings out at night too in the hope they would get a gift....and the rest as they say is history.

Answer 5

According to a well-researched little film called 'The Curious Case of Santa Claus', the girls' father was a friend of Bishop Nicholas of Myra. The oldest girl had decided to go to work in a brothel (not the disgrace it what later considered to be) in order to provide dowries for her younger sisters. Nicholas, not wanting to see that happen, on three successive nights threw a bag of gold in through the window of the girls' bedroom. On the first night, the bag landed in the oldest daughter's slipper. As the legend of St. Nicholas spread throughout Europe, Dutch children began to leave their wooden shoes by the fireplace, filled with hay and carrots for Sinterklaas' horse; in return, they found goodies in their shoes the next morning. This eventually became the stocking with which we're all so familiar.

Answer 6

Saint Nicholas was a man who wanted to share things with children so he used to go around putting things in people's shoes. Stockings just became an idea from the whole shoe thing. There was never really a true source for where stockings came from, they just came about.

Answer 7

What does it matter when CHRISTMAS IS LIKE SANTA CLAUS

You know the Fatman is a fake and a fat, white lie, but you go along with it anyway, as you deceive the kids and make them future liars to their own kids.

The Dictionary of the Bible says that: By the 5th. Century, the Church (of Rome) had concerned itself enough to have set December 25 as the date of Jesus’ birth. This had been the date of the Festival of the Sun God Zeus and to the Christians a greater light was come, Jesus Christ, the true light of the World.

Fact is - the Sun God is Zeus, and Jesus is really Jezeus, and the Romans worshipped Zeus, and you can see Barnabas being called Zeus by the Priests of Zeus in the Acts of the Apostles 14:12-13, in the Bible. Mithra was another son of Zeus, but Je-Zeus was Zeus come down as his own son, which made him strictly a Roman God.

Sunday is also the day that was set aside for worship of the Sun God (Zeus) by the Romans.

The Winter Solstice gives us the shortest day in the year, December 22, as the birth of the new Sun, so Rome shifted it to the 25 December in order to celebrate the Feast of the Circumcision eight days later, on 1 January, in accepting Jezeus Christos as the Living God of the Sun risen from the dead.

Zeus and the Fathers of Christianity did not know there was a Southern Hemisphere that did not share the Sun God Zeus or his four seasons, or his twelve disciples or twelve months of the year with the Northern Hemisphere, and it is for this reason that Australia celebrates Christmas twice each year, with the White Christmas falling in June but is called Christmas in July since they know it is a lie.

So Christmas and Christianity were as ignorant of the nature of the Planet as was Santa Claus of the South Pole, and just as the Pope was afraid that Christopher Columbus might fall off the flat Planet in his attempt to reach India traveling westwards, so were Santa Claus and Zeus afraid to go below the Planet and into the Fires of Hell.

When Pope John Paul ii declared the Shroud of Turin a medieval fake after having it scientifically carbon-dated in 1988, he failed to point out that the Bible describes the use of two shrouds, with one for the head and another for the “body” of the 100 lbs of aloes and myrrh, the other perfect hoax.

TRY SOME HONESTY THIS YEAR.
EXPOSE THE FRAUD OF SANTA THE UNHOLY.

BRING THE TRUTH OF THE MESSIAH FROM THE QURAN TO LIGHT SO THAT MEN WHO ARE BORN BLIND MIGHT SEE THAT THE ONE TRUE GOD CAN HAVE NO SON OR NO PARTNER
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HE IS ONE, HE ALWAYS WAS, HE IS, AND HE ALWAYS WILL BE!

PEACE ON EARTH AND GOODWILL TO ALL OF HUMANITY!

Answer 8

Probably from When Someone Wrapped a Present With a Sock and they put it on thir Fireplace

Answer 9

Not to be funny or anything, but maybe Jesus had on stockings in his manger.

Answer 10

they came from the north pole about 1400 years ago, when Muslims tried to take it and santa and his elves had to rely on their socks to make sticky bombs. Thank goodness it worked out.