[DOC] [TLE] Santa Claus - Christmas - HISTORY.com [PAR] Find out more about the history of Santa Claus from his earliest origins to the ... It 
is believed that Nicholas was born sometime around 280 A.D. in Patara, ... It is 
Nast who gave Santa his bright red suit trimmed with white fur, North Pole 
workshop, elves, ... English legend explains that Father Christmas visits each 
home on... [DOC] [TLE] Santa Claus - Wikipedia [PAR] Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, Santy, or 
simply Santa is a legendary figure of ... Santa Claus is believed to make lists of 
children throughout the world, categorizing them according to their behavior ... 
He is commonly portrayed as living at the North Pole and saying "ho ho ho" often. [DOC] [TLE] Yule - Wikipedia [PAR] Yule or Yuletide ("Yule time") is a festival observed by the historical Germanic 
peoples, later ... In plural (Old Norse jlnar, "the Yule ones") may refer to the 
Norse gods in ... Geoffrey Gaimar in his Estoire des Engleis, or "History of the 
English People", ... When Haakon believed that he wielded enough power, he 
requested a... [DOC] [TLE] Krampus - Wikipedia [PAR] In Austro-Bavarian Alpine folklore, Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure 
described as ... There seems to be little doubt as to his true identity for, in no other 
form is the full ... Unlike North American versions of Santa Claus, in these 
celebrations Saint .... Wiley (on behalf of the American Anthropological 
Association. [DOC] [TLE] History of Santa Claus - The North Pole [PAR] Moore included such details as the names of the reindeer; Santa Claus's laughs, 
winks, and nods; and ... In modern versions of the Santa Claus legend, only his 
toy-shop workers are elves. ... In England he came to be called Father Christmas. [DOC] [TLE] Origin of Christmas | The history of Christmas and how it began [PAR] A. Popular myth puts his birth on December 25th in the year 1 C.E. ... and former 
president of the Catholic Biblical Association  writing in the Catholic Church's ... 
an anonymous document believed to have been written in North Africa around 
243 CE, .... Christmas celebrates the birth of the Christian god who came to 
rescue... [DOC] [TLE] SANTA CLAUS: The Great Imposter - Dial-the-Truth Ministries [PAR] 21 And he asked his father, How long is it ago since this came unto him? .... 
Reformation Dutch who believed the veneration of saints as evil heresy, 
especially St. Nicholas. ... Another serious obstacle in the "St. Nicholas is Santa 
Claus" legend involves the date of December 25. ... He lived in the Northland (
North Pole). [DOC] [TLE] Should a Christian Celebrate Christmas? [PAR] Robert Myers (a proponent for celebrating Christmas) in his book .... Originally, 
the Santa Claus concept came from the pagan Egyptian god, Bes, ... The 
association of Santa Claus with snow, reindeer, and the North Pole ... Are we 
really honoring Christ by sending greetings in the name of a Scandinavian fertility 
god? [DOC] [TLE] History of Christmas thru historiolingistics [PAR] Having originated in Spain and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the New World, the 
.... One such legend is attributed to Martin Luther (1483-1546), the 16th Century 
..... Scandinavian villages followed by livestock, beasts of burden, and reindeer 
.... to the patron saint's lifestyle, like moving his residence to the North Pole. [DOC] [TLE] The Cygnus Mystery [PAR] Most usually it is the Pole Star, also known as the North Star, that is the object of 
... which as the celestial swan came under the influence of Near Eastern love ..... 
A more direct association between swans and the northerly transmigration of the 
.... a legend connects the founder Wayland, or Weland, the Germanic and Norse
... [DOC] [TLE] The Atlantean Conspiracy - 45 [PAR] The feeling of flying could account for the legends of flying reindeer, and ... the 
first Santa was Osiris in ancient Egypt who rode his flying chariot to/from the

Question: It's believed his association with the North Pole & reindeer came from Scandinavian legend
Answer: Santa Claus