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Ok, now am i the only one who seems to remember that there was a VERY very sinister myth about our uncle santa????
I will have to go dig through some boxes to get to my old books, but i remember something about santa being an evil guy who used to on Christmas eve, go around sneaking into houses, kidnapping / killing small children.... because the townspeople(especially the kids) never treated him fair (or something like that - because of his dwarflike appearance)
The "tradition" to wake up was borne out of fear, since parents stayd awake to guard their children agianst him....
and if i remember correctly the "tradition" to leave milk and cookies was also in an attempt to please the jolly old fat man (although i believe the myth had it that he was very small and skinny - dwarf like) and make him pass their kids by.
I will go search for it over the weekend and bring the real story without the holes in )
so jolly fat man, wanting to gun you down, would be fairly accurate....
