How does Father Christmas get down the chimney?
Santa Claus has perfected the art of miniaturization or the ability to make himself small. And the milk and cookies that children leave for him help him do just that. Santa adds a special potion to the milk that causes him to shrink in size, so he can go up and down the chimney.
How do you get Santa unstuck from your chimney?
HAVE Rudolph sprinkle pepper down the chimney and Santa will sneeze out. POUR water down the chimney. It will freeze and Santa will slide out, slick as a wink. EMPTY his toy bag, one-by-one, to give him more room, and give the toys to kids who didn’t get any.
How does Santa go up the chimney?
The most popular theory of all is that Santa Claus himself has magical abilities. After all, in the poem, “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clarke Moore, all Santa has to do to go up the chimney is to lay his finger aside of his nose and give a nod – and up the chimney he goes.
Why does Santa come down the chimney instead of the door?
To take away some of the occult’s power, he offered a simple, practical explanation: witches, elves, and other magical creatures actually entered homes via the chimney. This notion stuck and spread.
What does Santa do if there is no chimney?
Santa Claus has a magic key that he uses to get into homes, apartments, townhouses and condos without a chimney. He also uses this key for homes that have a chimney that is too small for him to fit down (too many Christmas cookies makes it a tight fit).
Does Santa go back up the chimney?
Instead, after landing his sleigh on your roof, Santa climbs down the chimney, stuffs your stockings, places gifts under the tree and takes a quick milk-and-cookies break before climbing back up the chimney.
What nationality is Santa Claus?
From bishop to gift giver. How did this St. Nicholas turn into the North Pole-dwelling bringer of Christmas gifts? The original saint was a Greek born in the late third century, around 280 A.D. He became bishop of Myra, a small Roman town in modern Turkey.
How much does Santa weight?
The North American Aerospace Defense Command’s beloved NORAD Tracks Santa program claims Santa Claus stands at about 5-foot-7 and weighs around 260 pounds – and that’s before his round-the-world cookie binge. Christmas lore experts at Yes Santa is Real suggest Mr. Claus is actually 6-foot-6 and 250 pounds.