Legends of Santa Around the World | Full Documentary | TRACKS 

Iceland does it a little bit differently. We don't have just one Jólasveinn (Icelandic for Santa Clause). We have 13. They are brothers who live in the mountains with their mother Gryla, their father Leppaludi, and their giant black Christmas cat. 12 days before Christmas the brothers come down from the mountains, one by one. In the olden days, they came to terrorize people, especially children. They used to be very mischievous so they got their names from whatever mischief they did. The first brother to visit children is Sheep Cote Clod, then comes Gully Gawk, then Stubby, Spoon Licker, Pot Licker, Bowl Licker, Door Slammer, Skyr Gobbler, Sausage Swiper, Window Peeper, Dorway Sniffer, Meat Hook, and the last is Candle Stealer. Today they don't terrorize children, today children leave a shoe in the window and every night, 12 days before Christmas, the children get little presents in their shoes, depending on if they've been naughty or nice. If they've been nice they get candy or toys, if they've been naughty they get a rotten potato. Although the brothers have turned nice, their mother hasn't. She still threatens to come down to kidnap naughty children, put them in her sack, take them with her to the mountains, boil them in her cauldron and eat them. As for the Christmas cat, well, if you don't get new clothes for Christmas, he will come down and eat you. Nice stuff :)

If everybody on planet Earth had the same culture and beliefs, what a boring world we would live in. I really enjoyed this video.

I’m 36 and still believe in Santa 🎅

Sir David Attenborough is the perfect narrator for this, and the child voiceovers are soooo cute! 😁☃️🎅🎄🎁🥳

Santa Claus is the American for the English Father Christmas and I was always bought up to believe present giving on 25th December was in recognition of the shepherds and Magi bringing gifts to Jesus. I prefer to liken the custom to that of St Nicholas aka Good King Wenceslas, never forgetting there are folk who have nothing. Peace and love to you all.

Merry Christmas to you all 🎁🎁🎁🎁🎁

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night 🎅🎄

The best story about St. Nicholas wasn't mentioned. At the council of Nicea, he punched Arius for heresy for denying the deity of Christ.

i love learning the story of santa all over the world :)

At the beginning of the documentary, when the narrator was talking about the "fluid" coming from St. Nicholas' tomb, the visuals were actually of Holy Communion being received/eaten, not this fluid mentioned. The "fluid" from St. Nicholas' tomb is myrrh, and is not consumed. Just a note. :)

One thing we all know for certain is that, no matter how he appears, Santa Clause can brighten the heart of any child and bring hope to every adult.

Oh wow! What you said about the Goddess Hertha... that's where HEARTH came from! The fireplace!

Saturnalia, held in mid-December, is an ancient Roman pagan festival honoring the agricultural god Saturn. Because its near the Winter Solstice - Saturnalia celebrations are the source of many of the traditions we now associate with Christmas, such as wreaths, candles, feasting and gift-giving. 🎅

love seeing all the different type of christmas celebrations around the world. i even learned that red was not the original colour

I love this video. Brings back childhood memories

St Nikolaus was from Turkey, he was the bishop of Myra.

Merry christmas all! 🎄

What a fun and entertaining video. Excellent!

Wow. This history was a whole lot weirder and ridiculous than I ever thought. Lol I'll just stick to celebrating Jesus. 😄❄️🎁🎄🙏🏽

Merry Christmas! To everyone in the world.

This was posted on My Birthday 🎂

A culture to be proud of.

I'm surprised as to how young the whole mythology is. Of course the actual start of the story is the old world, ancient Scandinavia, Germany/Central Europe and the Near East, where Santa is all Old Father Frost, but what we know as Santa apparently only existed for a few hundred years and the German Christkind has only recently morphed into that female angel figure which caused the name to make no sense, since it would have to literally be the Christ-child

🎅🏼Huzzah for Santa Claus !

In Germany it was Rübezahl who travelled overland with a sack of goods and distributed gifts of food and money to the poor. He was a real person and later in tradition got mixed up with the Saint, who was also a real person.

I am glad I am watching this.

This is excellent!

St Nicolas pray for us

It always leads back to The Worshiping of Saturn 🪐

The three kings brought gifts to babyJesus. According to the bible the three kings were from the east and it took a few years to travel to Bethlehem.

Even though this is from 2008 it is from a much better time. That was the beginning of the decline.

But everybody knows there ain't no Sanity Clause!

I've found candy coal in MY stocking! I now need a Christmas witch!

The English over the Dutch is annoying af

A Dutch boy wants a PlayStation console for Christmas. Parents shall not permit their children to play CALL OF DUTY, FORTNITE, ASSASSIN'S CREED and whatnot until they're of age. Right now, 'tis the limit of exclusively E-rated games.

Wow the mass black-face of people dressing up as the Black Pete character in Amsterdam was a bit of a shock! Even more so how it went uncommented on in the documentary. Just looked it up, it IS a very controversial issue in the Netherlands and the black-face dressing-up seems to be being phased out.

Saint Nicholas is the 8 of Diamonds 💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎 the Sun 😎 Card ♦️ and Merry Christmas 🎅 Blessings and Hugs 💜

He eats a lot of cookies

I know small amount of saint Nicolas I was taught Santa Claus was based on saint Nicolas and his pious deeds , I was taught that if I was bad I would get Cole in my stocking, Cole ? For coming of hail fire and brimstone to come. Do we not teach our children to be good and they will be rewarded by Santa? When they are older of the age of accountability then the same is taught ( at least 60 years ago) that see you when you're sleeping goes to Jesus Christ. Santa coming down a chimney ? Well let's see , little ones , ummm ur right the windows and doors are locked, well he , he comes down the chimney, and he can't come down until ur asleep. ( Fingers crossed behind back) Merry Christmas to the idea of doing good and giving without expected return at Christmas. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night ✝️🕯️🎄🕯️

38:11 Weird

Anyone else know the song from Miracle on 34th Street?

Very good content but the narrator is very slurred and it’s quite distracting.

Yes I do. And I’m willing to bet this documentary was made before it was popular to look for things to be offended by.

@13:33

why the narrator whispering?

A rather "Dry" documentary of a topic that should be cheerful and enjoyable.

I believe

I had an idea for a Santa lore or story… Imagine this: Santa Clause is not a man or a person.. it’s a political office you have to run and campaign for like a President or a Senator. Like the presidency you have a 4 year run and then you have to re-elected the majority of the children of the world for one more term.

Santa Claus 🎅🏿 is a mushroom 🍄 shaman

How does santa claus enter into houses with no chimneys

Kid wanted a PlayStation…. Got dumb banana game.

This is hopeless belief in santa

In short Saint Nicholaus was a witch and performed magic and witchcraft.

D'Peter

KJV Bible Jeremiah 10 All

Bethlehem, part of the suburbs of Jerusalem, the capital of Israel, shall be the original Xmas town. 'Tis where Jesus Christ was born in the event dubbed the Nativity, which made Xmas be established as a holiday. Nowadays, the biggest holiday in that country: Hanukkah!

I am hoping the body of Christ could come to the realization that Jesus left us one thing to do in remembrance of him, anything else is from the evil one and its corrupted Catholic church. Matthew 15:3 says ..Why then do yourselves violate the Commandments of God because of your tradition?... Christmas pretends to be light but is far away from it. Christians lie to their children, put a pagan tree in their homes, put sacrifices under it, put up (Catholic church) idols and call them decorations, become a hypocrite and be joyful that one day...Jesus says that we must change (born again) which means that we do not do it for a holiday but for the rest of our life. Be giving, be holy, be joyful, all these things God wants you to be year-round. Repent and turn away from it because it is not from your Lord that you received this but from a pagan tradition which the Lord warned us about.

Y black Peter what the hell very stereotype. Smh. Sic as hell.

“Replaced by a PLASTIC WESTERN SANTA!”… ooooo scary!! Meanwhile in Amsterdam hundreds of people go black-face. Let’s be honest: west Santa is best santa

Father Christmas /Santa Claus is White. 🎅

pagan worship that is now known as christmas. you're welcome.

Santa is not real

Black Peter smh

What a shame that the celebration of Christ's birth has to come to a witch being asked by the Three Wise Men where to find the Christ Child. There is nothing in Scripture of a witch interacting with the Three Wise Men. The Bible states "Suffer not a witch to live. We know what happened to King Saul when he went to the Witches of Endor. The Three Wise Men were directed by the stars and of course by God. The Bible does not say how many Wise Men there were, just that three types of gifts were given. There could have been more men who came bringing the same types of gifts, even gifts not listed in the Bible. Those gifts stated in the Bibical had meaning.

Jesus uses the door. Thieves break in through windows . Only witches , sorcerers and demons use the chimney !

All folk lore is invented by GOD haters and Jesus haters. Christmas is MASTER Jesus's birthday.

Listen to this nonsense...

What insane pagantry!ONLY JESUS IS THE LORD AND SAVIOR,THE MOST IMPORTANT SON OF GOD WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR YOU ALL, TO SAVE YOU FROM SATAN!JESUS IS THE LORD OF ALL LORDS!REPENT AND BELIEVE IN JESUS ONLY AND HIS GOSPEL OF JOHN 3,3,6,,!

Well, even in Italy during the Holidays the boys still experience misandry.