So who came up with the idea of santa?

Question

I mean why would someone make up a fat man breaking into everybody's house, leaving gifts, and stealing cookies and milk?

Answer 1

According to one of the legends based on Nicholas of Myra a 4th century Bishop/Catholic saint, Nicholas helped a poor family who was about to sell their daughters into prostitution by throwing a bag into their house. After the money was gone by the end of the year they planned to once again sell the daughters into prostitution until Nicholas threw another bag of gold into their home. The story got twisted by dutch Protestants who came to the United States, the result being Santa Claus.

Answer 2

Santa Claus

Legend has it that when Nicholas, a fourth-century bishop of Myra (now southwest Turkey), heard that a local resident lacked money for dowries for his three daughters, he secretly tossed gold pieces or coins into their home through a window or a smoke hole on the roof. The gold supposedly fell right into some stockings that had been hung by the fire to dry. All the essential elements of the Santa Claus story were there.

The image of the rotund, red-suited gift bearer, however, appeared to be the product of the fertile imagination of a series of famous New Yorkers. First, the Dutch settlers contributed the name—Saint Nicholas in Dutch is Sinterklaas. Then, in the 19th century, writers including Washington Irving and Clement Moore (famous for his poem: “’Twas the Night Before Christmas”) furnished the literary descriptions. Finally, cartoonist Thomas Nast, creator of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant, brought the finishing touches to the jolly old fellow seen around Christmas time.

Answer 3

Santa or once known as Saint Nicholas was a real person who would visit a childrens orphanage where children would lay theire wood shoes outside to dry. At christmas Saint Nicholas would place small toys inside the shoes of the children if they were good and he would place coal in the shoes of the children that were bad. Now as to how this story morphed into the super santa we know him as today is hard to say. Probably someone took the idea of placing gifts in shoes and transfered them to stockings which were hung by the fire place. So they had to make santa able to climb down chimineys to get to the stockings well then how did he get down the chimney? Well he has flying reindeer and a slay and lands on roof tops. Merry Christmas :)

Answer 4

It started called something else entirely, St.Nickolaus, or something rather, Denmark, I don't know it got all changed because the Coca Cola company didn't see the image fitting when they went to use it, and made him a jolly, fat man.

Answer 5

There is a story where a man saw socks hanging to dry in a poor house and he left some gifts in those socks and he was st. nicolas.

Answer 6

He comes from the old German god of fire who would go down chimneys (place of fire). He would give things to good children and ashes to bad kids. This is the origin.

Answer 7

That's another name for me. I'm also known as Mithras.

Answer 8

Elves, of course!

Answer 9

possibly some loser with a large imagination.

Answer 10

Satan claus just jumbled his name up a bit.