We've studied Santa Claus in English ( twice, even! ), French , Italian , Polish , German , Spanish , Dutch and a handful of other lan...

In this post we've decided to explore the less joyful side of Christmas. We conducted searches for three characters -- Zwarte Piet, Le P...

Searches for Santa's equivalent in Eastern Europe displays none of the Christmassy diversity of the western half of the continent. Świę...

We should admit from the start that we are mixing Santa traditions rather more loosely than perhaps we should. Especially given the rich ar...

As we've already covered in our series of posts up to this point, Christmas traditions are incredibly varied around the world . In fact,...

Now that we've covered variations on Santa Claus in English , French , Italian and Polish , it's time to turn our attention to Germ...

Gwiazdor and Święty Mikołaj were the two Polish terms for Santa Claus we searched and again it is very striking the extent to which they c...