The pagan Yuletide was associated with gift-giving ... It's been suggested that the seasonal character of "Santa Claus" or "Father Christmas" was influenced by the Norse god Odin.

of religiosity and paganism, and Levi-Strauss returns to the news underlining how the Dijon clergy, wanting to destroy Santa Claus, "did nothing other than restore to its entirety, after an ...

The original Santa Claus was St. Nicholas ... the Protestants said that Christmas celebrations, which included pagan traditions of exchanging gifts and raucous merrymaking, exhibited “an ...