How “The Night Before Christmas” Arrived in The Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel On December 23, 1823 In 1821, a printer and bookseller named William B. Gilley and an illustrator named Arthur Stansbury published an eight-page booklet titled The Children’s Friend: A New-Year’s Present to the Little Ones from Five to Twelve.
And No One Came to the Party
An unfortunate case of Santa Spine
SANTA WORLDWIDE – THE HISTORY OF SAINT NICK
This 1790 painting of St. Nicholas and Klaubauf
A Slavic figure associated with the winter solstice
Pagan gods in Slavic regions
Christmas in Christendom,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine – January 1873
Rode an eight-legged flying horse named Slepinar
The Roman God of Agriculture