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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18056, 17 January 1927, Page 3

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The custom of hanging up a stocking on Christmas Eve has an interesting historv. Old manuscripts dealing with the life of our ancestors in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries refer to the custom of parents presenting gifts to their children on St Nicholas's Day," December 6. The gifts were smuggled into the children s rooms ■while they were asleep, and the saint was credited with the good deed. On St Nicholas's Day the nuns in convents associated with that saint placed a silken stocking at the dour of the Mother room. In the stocking they put a piece of paper asking for the saint's favour. Sometimes a particular gift was requested. That, or other gifts, duly got into the stocking, and St Nicholas received thanks.

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