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Wallpaper Father Christmas not Santa Claus Free Christmas wallpaper for the computer desktop
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The following 2 photo-wallpapers show a French Father Christmas called 'Père Noël' in France. Do not call him Santa Claus, because he won't like it.
Indeed the name Santa Claus derives from Saint Nicholas, in German Sankt Nikolaus, in Swiss German Sämi Chlaus, in Dutch Sinterklaas. In Lorraine, France, where the Father Christmas illustrated on the wallpapers below has been seen, both Persons, Saint Nicholas and Father Christmas are well known and not to be confounded.
Saint Nicholas is coming in the night between the 5 and the 6 December. He wears a bishop's hat and carries a bishop's crozier. The Saint who was called Nicholas Thaumaturgos, was the Bishop of Myra in the 4th century.
A sinister person wearing black clothes is often accompanying Saint Nicholas. He punishes the naughty children and is called père Fouettard in France, Hans Trapp or Rüppelz in Alsace, Knecht Ruprecht in Germany, Krampus in Bavaria and Austria, Houseker in Luxembourg, Zwarte Piet in the Netherlands, Schmutzli in Switzerland, Santa's helper in America. This figure is never accompanying Father Christmas.
Father Christmas is coming in the night between the 24 and the 25 December, on Christmas Day, has a soft hat, often travels with a sleigh drawn by 8 reindeers. It is also said that he comes dawn the chimney to bring the gift parcels.
Ur... did I tell you that the wallpapers below aren't Santa wallpapers ? Please don't be rude, don't call them Santa Claus wallpapers since they are Father Christmas wallpapers. Thank you and Merry Xmas.
Our Xmas wallpapers:
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