Why does Santa Claus give coal to bad kids?

Why does Santa Claus give coal to bad kids?

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"If you don't behave, Santa will not give you any gift for Christmas - just a big coal."

Now I can tell you that it is a sentence I will hear is a child at least once a year (and often more often) in the run to Christmas.

Pure prospects of unwanted fossil fuels instead of toys and chocolate are enough to make me run into a frightened tears, promising to modify my angry ways!

But where exactly this concept comes from?

So do a little dig and go on a festival discovery journey together.

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In the early days of Santa, he was known to bringing gifts to good children and punish bad people.

Even in the early 1800s, the literature about Santa did not have him punish bad children with coal, but rather "a long bar, black, birch" like a stolen

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Or did he return to green?

But what about coal?

Well, the truth is said, coal is a difficult thing to pin down.

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So while it is a major that Santa always punishes naughty children, coal seems to come from a variety of different places.

In Italian Folk Culture, children were visited by a witch on her flying broom, who cleaned gifts and candies for good children, and coal for bad children.

Some people think that the idea of bad children get coal from the 16th century Netherlands.

Children will put their clogs with a fireplace on Christmas night and good kids will make them filled with small candies or toys but bad children will have a clogs filled with coal.

In Victoria England, Santa will only bring coal to poor children as a form of punishment for bad actions that make the poor family.

However, this will prove to benefit poor families because they can burn coal, something they usually can't afford.

So why coal?

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All we can really do is speculate about why he delivered coal.

Santa and his different helper people in different folk cultural versions around the world often enter a house from chimneys, bringing gifts that the fireplace.

Therefore, it will make sense that coal, a marker of bad kids, is something related to the fireplace.

Links this in the German version of Ye Olde Santa, where he will provide ashage bags for naughty children than a coal.

So while we can don't know why Santa brings coal to bad kids, we know that you should be better, you should not shout, you should not pout your lips - unless you