Santa Claus, a character who delivers gifts worldwide on Christmas Eve, is a personification of Christmas, based rather loosely on Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Sinterklaas, and Christkind. As Santa Claus’ popularity skyrocketed, many of his attributes were passed backwards to Father Christmas, Père Noël, Sinterklaas, and Ded Moroz who are nowadays all considered variations of the same wintertime-gifting character.

Santa Claus' origin has been told various ways by various authors. Here is what is widely known about Santa Claus:

Santa Claus (Saint Nicholas) lives with his wife at or near the North Pole where there is always snow (although other Arctic or Subarctic locations are sometimes specified, like Iceland or Lapland). Every Christmas Eve, he packs his sleigh and flies around the world delivering gifts to children. His sleigh is usually pulled by eight flying reindeer - Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, and Blitzen, a slight variation on Clement C. Moore's original roster (with most appearances now including a ninth as well). The gifts are made by a group of elves who also live at the North Pole. He keeps a list of which children are "naughty" and which are "nice," only delivering gifts to the "nice" ones by climbing down chimneys and leaving the presents under a Christmas tree or in stockings.

In some stories, he has children: The 1892 play, ''Santa Claus’ daughter'', portrays Santa Claus as a king, “Ruler of the Kingdom of the North Pole,” where he lives with his wife and daughter, Kitty, in a “Snow Castle” or “Snow‐palace” and has a male secretary named Gussie de Smythe who prepares the annual directory of gift recipients. The kingdom is defended by “Amazons” composed of a band of “Snow‐fairies” with their own queen, as well as personifications of the (US) holidays: Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the New Year. Santa Claus is said to be hundreds of years old and that “one of the conditions of [his] becoming immortal and the Christmas Saint” is his not being allowed to leave the North Pole but once a year.

The 1894 play “The Conquest of Santa Claus” portrays Santa and Mrs. Claus as having two children, Bertha and Fritz.

In “There Was a Boy Who Lived on Pudding Lane,” Santa Claus’ father is both the Baker and the Pieman, combined into one character; his mother is an original character named Nellie Claus; his younger brothers are named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; and his maternal grandmother is Mother Goose. Young Santa Claus, already an adept toy-maker, is inspired to give toys away after a heroic episode saving the children of Cole’s kingdom from the Pied Piper, breaking the Piper’s spell by promising them toys. Later, it is King Cole who, on the request of Mother Goose, allows Santa to continue to give toys away indefinitely rather than sell them for a living by granting him a free toy business with free lodging on the condition that he move to the North Country. Santa marries a local woman named Bessie and they leave for the North Country on their wedding day, taken in a sleigh pulled by reindeer to a gorgeous house (“a great, wide, low building, furnished in log furniture and bearskins, and with a fire blazing in every room!”), all of which belonged to King Cole, and the two make toys for the children of the world forever thereafter. (No mention is made of elves.)

All published appearances of Santa Claus from before January 1, )-(95)}} are public domain in the US.

Some notable appearances are listed below:

* A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by Diedrich Knickerbocker (pseudonym of Washington Irving) (1809). – Much of what makes Santa Claus distinct from Father Christmas and Sinterklaas originated in this book, largely starting with the 1812 edition.
* “Oh good holy man! whom we Sancte Claus name” (poem), ''The New York Spectator'' (15 Dec. 1810)
* False Stories Corrected (1813)
* “Old Santeclaus with Much Delight” (1821)
* “Account of a Visit from St. Nicholas” (poem), by Clement Clarke Moore (23 Dec. 1823)
* “Knickerbocker Hall, or The Origin of the Baker’s Dozen,” by James Kirke Paulding (1 Jan. 1831)
* “A Legend of St. Nicholas,” by James Kirke Paulding (14 May 1831)
* “The Revenge of St. Nicholas,” by James Kirke Paulding (31 Dec. 1831)
* “Claas Schlaschenschlinger,” by James Kirke Paulding (2 Feb. 1833)
* “The Ride of Saint Nicholas on Newyear’s Eve,” by James Kirke Paulding (1836)
* “A Christmas Legend,” by James Rees (1848)
* “The Wonders of Santa Claus,” by Ralph Hoyt (26 Dec. 1857)
* “Lilly’s Secret” (poem), by Emily Huntington Miller (Dec. 1865) – later set to music as “Jolly Old Saint Nicholas” (1874)
* General Lee and Santa Claus, by Louise Clack (1866)
* “Mrs. Santa Claus and Jessie Brown” (9 Jan. 1869)
* “A Letter from Santa Claus,” by Mrs. T. Bailey (1869)
* Santa Claus and His Works, by George P. Webster (1869)
* “A Letter From Santa Claus,” by Mark Twain (1870s)
* A Handbook of Legendary and Mythological Art, by Clara Erskine Clement (1871)
* Hidden Treasure; or, The Good St. Nicholas, by Nathan Boughton Warren (1872)
* Introduction by Mary Mapes Dodge, St. Nicholas (Nov. 1873)
* “The Frost Fairies,” by Margaret T. Canby (1873) - Santa Claus does not appear in the story but is said to be the neighbor of Jack Frost (who lives “far to the North”) and is the intended recipient of a large gift of Jack’s gold and gems, although it never reaches him.
* “Lill’s Travels in Santa Claus Land,” by Ellis Towne, Sophie May Farman and Ella Farman (1877)
* “Twelve O’Clock, and All’s Well!,” by M. S. E. P. (Jan. 1881) – poem in Wide Awake
* “The Marriage of Santa Claus” (poem) (1881)
*“A Song of Saint Nicholas,” by Mary Mapes Dodge (1882). – Makes no mention of reindeer, but instead claims that Saint Nicholas is able to visit every child’s home because he travels via their dreams.
* “Boreas Bluster’s Christmas Present,” by Helen Ashe Hays (11 Dec. 1883)
* “Lucy Lee from High Dundee,” by A. Brennan (Jan. 1884)
* “Fun‐Beams,” by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Jan. 1884)
* “Santa Claus and the Mouse,” by Emilie Poulsson (Jan. 1884)
* “Sancte Claus, Bishop” and “St. Nikolaas” (poems), New Amsterdam Gazette (27 Feb. 1885)
* “Death of Santa Claus” (poem), by Alice M. Ball (1885)
* “A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True,” by Louisa May Alcott (1886)
* “Says Santa” (rhyme), by P. S. C. (Dec. 1888)
* “Goody Santa Claus on a Sleigh‐Ride” (poem), by Katharine Lee Bates (Dec. 1888)
* “A Captured Santa Claus,” by Thomas Nelson Page (4 Dec. 1888)
* Dutch Nursery Rhymes of Colonial Times (1890)
* “Santa Claus on a Lark” and “Santa Claus in the Pulpit,” by Washington Gladden (1890)
* “Jack Frost,” trans. Edith Hodgetts (1891)
* “The Frost King,” by Helen Keller (Jan. 1892)
* “Birth and Adventures of Santa Claus,” by William Cotter Wilson (1893)
* Mr. Kris Kringle, by Silas Weir Mitchell (1893)
* A Christmas Tale, by Maurice Bouchor (1895)
* “Santa Claus’ Assistants,” by Ernest Vincent Wright (1896)
* Christmas Entertainment, ed. Alice M. Kellogg (1897)
*“Is There a Santa Claus?” (essay), by Francis Pharcellus Church (21 Sept. 1897)
* “How Christmas Came to the Santa Maria Flats,” by Elia W. Peattie (1898)
* A Vision of St. Nicholas, by Holdridge Ozro Collins (1898)
* The Mother of St. Nicholas (Santa Claus), by Grant Balfour (pseudonym of James Miller Grant) (1899)
* Santa Claus’s Partner, by Thomas Nelson Page (1899)
* “A Messenger from Santa Claus,” by Harvey Scribner (1900)
* The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, by L. Frank Baum (1902)
* “A Christmas Mistake,” by Edwin L. Sabin (Dec. 1902)
* The Surprising Adventures of the Man in the Moon, by Ray M. Steward (pseudonym of Edward Stratemeyer) (1903)
* “A Kidnapped Santa Claus,” by L. Frank Baum (1904)
* “A Defective Santa Claus” (poem), by James Whitcomb Riley (3 Dec. 1904)
* Is There a Santa Claus?, by Jacob Riis (1904)
* “A Visit to Santa Claus,”, by Harvey Scribner (1904)
* “A Message to Mother Goose,” by Ellen Manly (Dec. 1904)
* “A Ballad of Santa Claus” (poem), by Henry van Dyke (1907)
* “A Perjured Santa Claus,” by Myra Kelly (1907)
* The Goblins’ Christmas, by Elizabeth Anderson (1908)
* Tommy Trot’s Visit to Santa Claus, by Thomas Nelson Page (1908)
* “The Philanthropist’s Christmas,” by James Weber Linn (1908)
* “The Journey’s Beginning,” by Burges Johnson (5 Dec. 1908) – named Kris (i.e., Kris Kringle); poem in Judge. reprinted in Judge’s Library (Dec. 1909), Caricature (1912)
* “The Closing of Santa Claus’ Door,” by Anne Warner (1909)
* The Road to Oz, by L. Frank Baum (1909)
* “The Story of King Frost,” Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories (1909)
* "The Night After Christmas," The Night Before Christmas and Other Stories (1909)
* “A Child’s Christmas Prayer” (poem), by James W. Foley (1910)
* The Magic Aeroplane, by Mrs. L. R. S. Henderson (1911)
* “Santa Claus’s Baby” and “Little Miss Santa Claus,” by John Coleman Adams (1911)
* “Little Girl’s Christmas,” by Winnifred E. Lincoln (1913)
* “Jimmy Scarecrow’s Christmas,” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1913)
* Holland Stories, by Mary Estella Smith (1913)
* “The Fairing of St. Nicholas” a.k.a. “The Ballad of St. Nicholas” (poem), by R. L. Gales (Dec. 1913)
* If Only I Were Santa Claus, by Edgar Guest (1914)
* The Rejuvenation of Father Christmas, by J. Edgar Park (1914)
* The Dilemma of Santa Claus, by Lloyd C. Douglas (1915?)
* “A Story of Saint Nicholas” and “Elijah the Prophet and St. Nicholas,” by Alexander Afanasyev (1915)
* “The Spirit of Christmas,” by Edith Houghton Hooker (Dec. 1915)
* “Mr. S. Claus’s Predicament,” by J. D. Whitney (Dec. 1915)
* “Christmas Island,” by Katharine Lee Bates (1916)
* “Santa Claus' Riddle,” by Katharine Lee Bates (1916)
* “Santa's Stocking,” by Katharine Lee Bates (1916)
* “A Happy Solution,” by Margaret Johnson (Jan. 1916)
* “Where Santa Claus Came From,” by Rose Ranson (Jan. 1916)
* “Anita’s Secret or Christmas in the Steerage,” by Walter Ben Hare (1917)
* A Reversible Santa Claus, by Meredith Nicholson (1917)
* St. Nicholas, by George H. McKnight (1917)
* “Santa's Helpers,” by M. Nora Boylan (1918)
* When Santa Claus Went to the Front, by Ethel E. Reed and Martha G. Kendall (1918)
* Telephoning to Santa Claus, by John D. MacDonald (1919)
* A Christmas Dilemma, by Katharine Van Etten Lyford (1920)
* “Raggedy Andy’s Smile” and “The Wooden Horse,” by Johnny Gruelle (1920)
* “There Was a Boy Who Lived on Pudding Lane,” by Sarah Addington (Dec. 1921)
* “Saint Nicholas and the Children,” by Cyrus Macmillan (1922)
* “The Great Adventure of Mrs. Santa Claus,” by Sarah Addington (Dec. 1922)
* There Was a Boy Who Lived on Pudding Lane (1922)
* “Christmasse Island” (1930) – anonymous story in By Seven Singing Willows, named both Father Christmasse and Santa
* Little Tooktoo, by Marie Ahnighito Peary (1930)
* The Christmas Forest, by Louise Fatio (1950)
* Festivals of Western Europe, by Dorothy Gladys Spicer (1958) – multiple entries on traditions involving Sinterklaas

* “Saint Nicholas, good holy man!” (traditional song) (1810)
* “Santa Claus May Be Recognized” a..k.a. “Up on the House Top” (song), by Benjamin Hanby (1864)
* Santa Claus Frolics (play), by George Melville Baker (1866)
* The House of Santa Claus, by Edward Eggleston (Dec. 1876) – play in St. Nicholas, reprinted in Indiana School Journal (Dec. 1878), St. Nicholas Book of Plays & Operettas (1900)
* The False Sir Santa Claus, libretto by E. S. Brooks, music by Anthony Rieff (Nov. 1882) – masque in St. Nicholas, reprinted in St. Nicholas Book of Plays & Operettas (1900)
* Santa Claus’ Daughter (play), by Everett Elliott and F. W. Hardcastle (1892) – Santa Claus’ teen daughter Kitty, feeling isolated living at the North Pole, requests that her father bring back a man for her, so on his annual flight, he kidnaps a crass Irishman in the hopes that, after meeting him, his daughter will no longer want any man from the world of mortals.
* The Conquest of Santa Claus (play), by Caroline A. Creevey and Margaret E. Sangster (27 Nov. 1894)
* Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus on the Day After Christmas, by Minna C. Denton (27 Nov. 1897)
* Santa Claus (monologue), by J. L. McClelland (1901)
* “Santa Is Coming” (song), by W. A. Hodgdon (1906)
* Jack Frost’s Mistake (operetta), by Clara J. Denton (1907)
* “Santa Claus” (song), by Mrs. Charles H. Toby (1911)
* The Christmas Conspiracy (play), by Elizabeth Woodbridge (Dec. 1911)
* “The Legend of St. Nicholas” (song), by R. L. Gales (1912)
* Mrs. Santa Claus, Militant (play), by Bell Elliott Palmer (1914) – Mrs. Santa Claus waits for Mr. Santa Claus (whom she calls “Jolly”) to take a nap and then steals his sleigh and attempts to deliver the Christmas presents herself.
* A Legend of Saint Nicholas (play), by Beulah Marie Dix (Sept.–Oct. 1914)
* “Santa Land” (song), by Harriet D. Castle, music by J. A. Parks (1915)
* A Department Store Santa Claus (play), by Ernest Godfrey Hoffsten (1918)
* The Luck of Santa Claus (play), by B. C. Porter (1918)
* The Christmas Chain (play), by Lilian Pearson (1921)
* The Christmas Dinner (play), by Shepherd Knapp (1921)
* Down the Chimney (play), by Shepherd Knapp (1921)
* Santa Claus Gets His Wish (play), by Blanche Proctor Fisher (1921)
* Up the Chimney (play), by Shepherd Knapp (1921)
* Queen Christmas (play), by Carolyn Wells (1922) – Santa Claus and King Christmas are separate characters.
* In Quest of Santa Claus (operetta), libretto by Lena M. Harry, music by Otis M. Carrington (1929)
* Santa’s Magic (puppet play), by Florence McClurg Everson (1929) – disguised as a wood chopper
* Animated Toys (play), by Mildred Corell and Irma Liccione (1930)

* Santa Claus Filling Stockings (1897)
* Santa Claus and the Children (1898)
* The Visit from Santa Claus (1899)
* Santa Claus' Visit (1900)
* The Night Before Christmas (1905)
* A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus (1907)
* Night Before Christmas (1908)
* A Trap for Santa Claus (1909)
* Ida's Christmas (1912)
* A Christmas Revenge (1915)
* The Faith of Sonny Jim (1915)
* The Tichborne Mummers' Play (1919)
* The Night Before Christmas (1946)
* Santa Claus' [http://pdfc.wikia.com/wiki/Punch_and_Judy Punch and Judy] (1948)
* Joe Santa Claus (tv, 1951)
* The Miracle on 34th Street (tv, 1955)
* Santa Claus vs. The Devil (1959)
* Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)

* The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives (1933)
* Santa's Surprise (1947)
* Hector's Hectic Life (1948) (cameo)
* Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (1948)
* The Christmas Visitor (1959)
* Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
** The copyright year in Roman numerals was mis-marked as MCLXIV (1164) instead of the correct MCMLXIV (1964). Per U.S. law at the time, this invalidated the copyright, causing it to enter the public domain immediately upon release.
* Santa and the Three Bears (1970)

* United Telephone System Christmas Ad (1974)
* Smartee’s Pizza Brigade Print Advertisement (1982)
* Green Street Reds (1983)

* The 1st Annual Macy's Christmas Parade (1924)
* The 2nd Annual Macy's Christmas Parade (1925)
* The 3rd Annual Macy's Christmas Parade (1926)
* The 4th Annual Macy's Christmas Parade (1927)
* The 5th Annual Macy's Christmas Parade (1928)
* The 6th Annual Macy's Christmas Parade (1929)
* The 7th Annual Macy's Christmas Parade (1930)

* [http://www.comics.org/character/name/Santa%20Claus/sort/chrono/ Numerous...]
* The Turr’ble Tales of Kaptin Kiddo (newspaper strip) (18 Dec. 1910) – named Santie Claws

* The Pokemon [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Delibird_(Pok%C3%A9mon) Delibird], which first appeared in Pokemon Gold & S Silver, is inspired by Santa Claus.
* In the Pokémon anime, Santa himself makes an appearance with Jynx.

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus Wikipedia] (Santa Claus)
*[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Claus DC Database]
*[http://marvel.wikia.com/Santa_Claus Marvel Database]
*[http://www.comicvine.com/santa-claus/29-22143/ ComicVine]
*[http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2008/12/23/7839591.html Being legally declared a Canadian citizen!]
*[http://www.noradsanta.org/ Watch Santa's travels every Christmas Eve!]
*[http://oz.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Claus Oz Wiki]
*[http://shrek.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Claus Shrek Wiki]
*[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Claus Disney Wiki]
*[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Santa Muppet Wiki]
*Myths in Media Wiki
*[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/santa.htm Marvunapp]

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Santa Claus


Santa Claus, a character who delivers gifts worldwide on Christmas Eve, is a personification of Christmas, based rather loosely on Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Sinterklaas, and Christkind. As Santa Claus’ popularity skyrocketed, many of his attributes were passed backwards to Father Christmas, Père Noël, Sinterklaas, and Ded Moroz who are nowadays all considered variations of the same wintertime-gifting character.




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