A CLAUS FOR CELEBRATION
e’s the über shape-shifter. He’s changed his guise more times than any other figure, fictional or factual, in history. We’re talking Bowie’s habitual metamorphosis to the power of several thousand. But where did the legend of Father Christmas — or Pelznickel, Papá Noel, Kris Kringle, Père Noël, Weihnachtsmann, Christmas Baba, Fùqin Shèngdàn Jié, or Joulupukki, depending on where infants are gazing at the night sky and listening for sleigh bells — begin?
