Christmas Stocking... the story behind it
By ahgong
@ahgong (10064)
Singapore
December 4, 2007 6:51pm CST
The most popular legend of the Christmas stockings says that there was once a father who had three beautiful daughters. These three girls were destined to live a life without husbands because their father could not raise enough money for their dowries.
Their plight was overheard by Saint Nicholas of Myra one day. That night, Saint Nicholas dropped three bags of gold down the chimney of the house that they lived in.
It so happens that the girls had washed their stockings and hung it above the fireplace to dry. The bags of gold dropped into the stockings.
When others heard of this occurrence, they began to hand their stockings at the fireplace as well, in the hope that Saint Nicholas will also remember them and drop them bags of gold.
Heh heh... interesting beginning to an age old tradition, isn't it?
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@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
5 Dec 07
I enjoy hearing legends like this. I find them very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I wonder if that's how the whole idea of him coming down the chimney got started also. I mean if you think about it, it is an odd thing to come up with unless there's a story like that to explain it.
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
6 Dec 07
I guess that would be the case.
Cos there is no way to explain how the gold got put into the stockings.
Being the logical creatures we are, we have to have a story that is logical, so comes the story of some one going down the chimney to put it into the stockings.
What I would like to find out though is the story behind the reindeers and the sleigh.
Heh heh... that would be nice to know how it came about.
Do you know the story behind the red suit and the reindeers and the sleigh?
@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
5 Dec 07
LOl really?
Oh well...
Maybe that's why bank robbers think it lucky to cover their head and face with female stockings when they go on a money grabbing spree. :)
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
6 Dec 07
ha ha ha ha... that is a good one!
I would never have linked the two together!
you are the best lordwarwizard!
ha ha ha ha ha... covering their head with stockings for good luck indeed!
ha ha ha ha ha... darn it, my sides are hurting already... ha ha ha ha ha....!!!
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@lordwarwizard (35747)
• Singapore
6 Dec 07
Lol, why you laugh? ALAMAK. You laugh, you also make me laugh. Now my sides hurt as well. :P
