@Nisse_Hult yeah, they've been celebrating St Nick's for real long, easily since the 1600s or something, so I suppose that's since before various religions stopped trying to destroy each other in the region :P
However, some neighbouring countries (among others Germany, Switzerland and Belgium) also have St. Nick's traditions of their own. They're much smaller than ours, but they exist and are different enough to suggest that these developed on their own quite a while ago.
St. Nick's also has nothing to do whatsoever with Christmas, but the Santa Claus of the rest of the world looks (and probably is) like a St. Nick that accidentally ended up on the wrong date throughout history.
I have no idea about the history of our St. Nick tradition, but since it mostly shows up on very protestant countries (Belgium is.the exception), that history probably doesn't have shit to do with the church and the actual saint, either. :P
Digging up fake old traditions? Haha wow The resulting Sankta Lucia still seems fun, so well, why not? :P
I don't know about the older versions of St. Nick's day, but the only thing that makes it clear it's a thing with Catholic roots rather than an 'old superstition' is the fact the guy is dressed as a Bishop.
Which is a pretty obvious one, to he fair...
Hm, that's quite a good reason for the -eve of holidays being a thing there.
We do celebrate St Nick on the -eve, and the eve only - while the Swiss celebrate it on the actual day, so their date for the celebration is one day later. Which apparently comfused y Swiss classmate a lot.
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@Nisse_Hult yeah, they've been celebrating St Nick's for real long, easily since the 1600s or something, so I suppose that's since before various religions stopped trying to destroy each other in the region :P
However, some neighbouring countries (among others Germany, Switzerland and Belgium) also have St. Nick's traditions of their own. They're much smaller than ours, but they exist and are different enough to suggest that these developed on their own quite a while ago.
St. Nick's also has nothing to do whatsoever with Christmas, but the Santa Claus of the rest of the world looks (and probably is) like a St. Nick that accidentally ended up on the wrong date throughout history.
I have no idea about the history of our St. Nick tradition, but since it mostly shows up on very protestant countries (Belgium is.the exception), that history probably doesn't have shit to do with the church and the actual saint, either. :P
Digging up fake old traditions? Haha wow
I don't know about the older versions of St. Nick's day, but the only thing that makes it clear it's a thing with Catholic roots rather than an 'old superstition' is the fact the guy is dressed as a Bishop.
Which is a pretty obvious one, to he fair...
Hm, that's quite a good reason for the -eve of holidays being a thing there.
We do celebrate St Nick on the -eve, and the eve only - while the Swiss celebrate it on the actual day, so their date for the celebration is one day later. Which apparently comfused y Swiss classmate a lot.
Yeah, packed stores are awful.