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    Today’s Christmas traditions

    Nov 28, 2019 3 minutes

    GERMANY

    St Nicholas Day

    Christmas Eve is a bigger celebration in German households than Christmas Day itself. Gifts are given on Christmas Eve and a large meal is eaten. German children write letters to St Nicholas rather than Santa Claus, and St Nicholas Day is celebrated on 6 December.

    ICELAND

    Christmas trolls

    Icelandic folklore provides not one Santa but 13, who come down from the mountains. Children in Iceland place a shoe at their bedroom windows every evening

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