Christmas Makes No Sense

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[@NicolaLarosa]

"But the tree will die." "Yes, but it will be pretty!" This exchange's realism makes me die inside a little.

[@theresagomez2605]

That was a fantastic little bit!

[@Peter_Riis_DK]

Now it is said about the *Christmas tree* that the idea came from *Germany* - and since Prince Albert was German... But no, back in 1800 long before Albert was a thing, *George III's German wife Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz* introduced a Christmas tree to her family. In fact, Queen Victoria's childhood was full of Christmas trees, but the tradition never spread much beyond the Royal family until the 1840s.

[@krankarvolund7771]

It's funny, in France it's Helene von Mecklenburg-Schwerin who introduced it, almost the same family XD

[@theresagomez2605]

​@@krankarvolund7771cousins most likely

[@fariesz6786]

probably when the boulevard press was born and immediately marketted the royals as herolds of _the next big thing._

[@johnnygomez7063]

If she was Mecklenburg-Strelitz - so it means sh,e was just half german and half slavic... Gratings from Prague

[@Peter_Riis_DK]

@@johnnygomez7063 No.

[@amidaobscura]

In Belgium children got tons of presents for St-Nicolas, not so much at Christmas. Depends on the family I guess.

[@brezzainvernale]

In Switzerland too, we have S. Nicolao who walks from home to home, or in the streets, and gives little things (chocolate, oranges) to children.

[@jonascharlier6716]

Usually, kinds receive gifts for St-Nicolas, and we exchange gifts for Xmas

[@amidaobscura]

@@brezzainvernale Do you have this song in Switzerland ? The only song I remember from my childhood XD Ô grand Saint-Nicolas patron des écoliers Apportez-moi du sucre dans mes petits souliers Je serai toujours sage Comme un petit mouton Je dirai des prières Pour avoir des bonbons Venez, venez Saint-Nicolas Venez, venez Saint-Nicolas Venez, venez Saint-Nicolas et tralala Ô grand Saint-Nicolas patron des écoliers Apporte-moi des jouets dans mon petit panier Je serai toujours sage Comme un petit mouton Je dirai des prières Pour avoir des bonbons Venez, venez Saint-Nicolas Venez, venez Saint-Nicolas Venez, venez Saint-Nicolas et tralala

[@JeroenJA]

Its good, sinterklaas is a pure children s feast, and Christmas is about famely, Christmas diners :-). Santa claus is mostly kerstmarkt decorating live action.

Was thinking something similar for Germany.

[@Luubelaar]

I live in New Zealand. Christmas is in summer here. I've had a northern hemisphere white Christmas. Nice, but definitely felt odd. I'm used to having chilled foods and doing things like going to the beach on xmas day.

[@pardalote]

Yes, its pretty standard wearing shorts and t-shirt and listening to jingle Bells here in Australia. Loic, please don't forget that the Earth has a Southern Hemisphere or your geography will make no sense.

[@pardalote]

Although, the ubiquity of Christmas songs about snow makes no sense. Just goes to show the thoroughness of colonisation.

[@krankarvolund7771]

I often agree with the woes of colonization, but like, Christmas is a european holiday, of course the songs are about how Europe celebrate it (and the USA, but they have the same climate as us XD). If there's any colonisation there it's why are non european countries celebrating a christian holiday ˆˆ Even if we go back to the pagan roots, it's the winter solstice, your Christmas should be held on June 25 XD

[@pardalote]

Umm.... no, even the 25th June won't work for the winter solstice here. This year (2023) it was on the 22nd of June, next year it will be the 21st. But the season that matches June the best where I live, isn't Winter anyway, it is the time of Dagara, also known as Barugin season. So, yes, even a Winter solstice celebration in June wouldn't make much sense.

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@pardalote It's the same for Christmas, it's around Winter Solstice but the real one is always around 21st or 22nd December ^^

[@PawelKraszewski]

I **LOVE** your new format! In Poland we have a tradition of 12 dishes for Xmas supper. I'm just wondering if we could arrange 13 desserts of Provence as 12th dish... Hm... Merry Winter Solstice Holiday to everyone! Let Light overcome Darkness once again.

[@carolinedelisle589]

There’s 12 dishes for Ukrainian Christmas too

[@theresagomez2605]

​@@carolinedelisle589I love the spider web decorations, and the story behind them. Is that also your tradition?

[@djryse]

same in Lithuania, also poppy seed milk is a must

[@carolinedelisle589]

@@theresagomez2605 No, I never heard of the spider webs. I am not Ukrainian but my husband's grandfather emigrated from Lliv in 1905 to Canada. There is a fair number of Ukrainian and Polish descendants in Alberta.

[@jonwis2183]

Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia i smacznego karpia :)!

[@zero.integer]

I'm Ukrainian and it's the 1st time I hear about the spider web, we decorate it with дождик - "rain"

[@olgao8590]

me too

[@ottovonbismarck5387]

This tradition is literally an invention of the New York Museum, there are no sources about this Christmas tradition, only the New York Museum's Christmas tree exhibition, even the Ukrainian Wikipedia article refers to it I would like to add that I am also Ukrainian and have never heard of this tradition either.

[@PaulaD01]

I thought that I was pretty familiar with most European Christmas traditions and I also hear about this for the first time😂 I can actually see more resemblance to this in Polish tradition of decorating, for many years we used tinsel (anielskie włosy) to decorate, it looks kind of like spider web

[@nemure]

He made up plenty of things and whole video is full of mistakes

[@natalykalinichenko8706]

I am also Ukrainian. As for Ukrainian Christmas traditions, these are our Christmas songs, such as Shchedryk.

[@nekocari]

Germans just celebrate both. Nikolaus on the 6th and Christmas on the 24th. :D

[@alinefaure3646]

And we also have Knecht Ruprecht, who might come instead of St. Nikolaus for children who misbehave and bring his rod instead of sweets

[@sarahakande7395]

​@@alinefaure3646❤❤❤❤❤❤mpt ❤❤❤m

[@bioderma_in_your_pocket]

Yup, Slovaks do too. Svätý Mikuláš aka Nikolaus- 6th, Vianoce aka Christmas- 24th december.

[@egorsamiiluchii13]

Russia does too, but on January 7th only

[@lhynn51]

Double the gifts, double the treats? That's neat. Sign me in! 😁

[@KitKatBanana]

That was a tree-lly good video. I loved it snow much! These long-form videos light up my day, though your shorts are still hilarious! You present well and your skits are a gift to the world. Thank you, Loic!

[@theresagomez2605]

So many puns

[@KarlMathiasMoberg]

Loving these long-form videos from Loic!

[@mathieufavreaux8682]

Loving this format, entertaining, interesting and based on your own funny universe of characters! I really like how you are expanding!

[@sharifakabir2960]

In Aruba we celebrate both! Sinterklaas with Pietjes and Santa with Elves 😂🎉 We love both and kids get 2 presents in december

[@krankarvolund7771]

In France, an old tradition (that is becoming very rare, personally I only saw it in old books ˆˆ) is the "étrennes", a gift you give on the first of January, it was an old roman tradition to give food or money to your loved ones and your boss ˆˆ

[@boesvig2258]

"Nowadays, we use electric candles on our trees". No, "we" don’t. Here in Denmark, real candles are still most popular. We’re Vikings, we don’t mind a few burnt children! 🎄

[@rtab722]

Your British accent is just. Wow. I’ve heard so many big-name American actors doing it weirdly 😅 I guess Loic is just a language genius and his multilingual background helps a lot hehe

[@travelwell6049]

Having more exposure to something would make it easier and yes I agree with you, being good a languages means also good at accents.

[@xandervampire195]

The Christmas tree was a German tradition. It was originally part of the Pagan festival which predated Christmas but German Christians liked it so much that they incorporated it into their Christmas celebrations. Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's husband) was German so he introduced the queen to this practice and it quickly spread all over the UK as well as the rest of the world.

[@fariesz6786]

the idea that the christmas tree is based on pagan traditions is apparently a myth. the first mentionings of them are in the 15th or 14th century

[@EgorGozbenko]

Here in Ukraine we still celebrate St. Nikolas' day on 6th of December.

[@PCAKnight]

I'm an Italian American and do the same!

[@s.w.81]

Same in Germany

[@zodiakgames]

“But… the tree will die…” “So will you if i dont get a tree inside to decorate this instant!”

[@vanillarose1122]

Loïc, YOU are a gift! ❤ Merry Christmas!

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

The first mentions of Christmas trees (or Christmas tree like decorations) are from Strasbourg and Mainz in the 15th century. The custom moved then to the coasts of the Baltic Sea, where it was somewhat changed and enhanced, from which it travelled via Prussia and Saxony to the throne of the UK. The original tree decorations consisted mostly of apples and nuts for the children to pick, but were replaced in noble houses soon by more durable glass balls (even cheaper than apples, if you used them two years in a row without having to replace them several times each season), often made in the Alsace or in the Ore Mountains. Saint Nicholas gets also still his celebration in the more Catholic regions of Germany at the 6th of December, by which the children get twice presents in December (or thrice if they happen to have their birthday in December). The major presents have been moved to Christmas' Eve however, while St. Nicholas day is mostly for chocolate, nuts, oranges and some small toys; in former years it was often also the day for getting new (or second hand/foot if you had older siblings) winter shoes or rubber boots. And since Santa Claas is therefore already occupied, the Christmas presents are either brought by the "Christkind" (Christ child) or the "Weihnachtsmann" (Christmas man, the worldly representative of Santa Claas, who has no first or last name at all, but is the one living at the North Pole), depending on region. Le Pére Fouettard is called Knecht (=servant) Ruprecht in different parts of Germany (or Hans Muff in the Rhineland) and is considered to be the assistant of Saint Nicholas, handling the nasty children, e.g. by putting them in his sack. In the Alpine regions there is the even more fearsome Krampus for the same role.

[@ArchonPook]

I started typing and realized I have a lot to say about the holidays, both comforting and encouraging. Then I realized it was a little too much. So I'll just say this. Happy Holidays to one and all. I'm keeping a place in my heart warm for each and every.

[@GuillaumePerrinLeclerc]

Continue de faire des vidéos longues, elles sont trop cool! :) Salut du Québec.

[@yunni33]

Dans le Nord près de la frontière de la Belgique aussi il y a le père fouettard mais c'est plutôt le Némésis de St Nicolas. Si les enfants ne sont pas sage, c'est le père fouettard qui leur donne un bout de charbon (on est dans le Nord qui est historiquement une grande terre minière). S'ils sont sage, st Nicolas leur offre un petit st nicolas en chocolat. Par ailleurs, pas mal d'enfant belge recoivent leur cadeaux le jour de st nicolas. Merci pour cette vidéo et à très vite !

[@EmelineDanna]

En Lorraine aussi on célèbre St Nicolas (qui est le St patron de la région. Quel bonheur quand il nous rend visite à l’école pour nous donner des chocolats et des bonbons 🥰 Les défilés pendant une semaine, cette période est vraiment géniale ❤️

[@SuperLoki777]

Special thanks for remembering Ukraine on your history of Christmas! Glory to Ukraine! Glory to Heroes! And merry Christmas, of course 😜

[@hedgethesledge]

I live in the UK and idk if it's just my family or the whole country but we put out a mince pie and a bottle of whiskey for father Christmas and a carrot for rudolf. We then have stockings around our bed for us to wake up and get a few little presents out of, like a book or a few sweets, always included an orange for some reason in my house, and then we go downstairs for our gifts under the tree that my mum likes to spread out the whole day dishing out. And our reasoning for how father Christmas can get into the house despite us not having a chimney: he walks through the walls.

[@marielvanhees9531]

I can understand why you chose not to talk about the Dutch Sinterklaas helper Zwarte Piet, who in most places isn't dressed up in black face anymore for obvious reasons. A much deeper conversation today which the population still argued over, but has a similar anti Santa characteristic like the one from France. In Dutch songs he also has a bundle of twiggs for punishing the naughty children and a bag to carry them away. Today he's more of a happy entertainment for the kids and throws candy at them.

[@jonascharlier6716]

We have kind of the same tradition in Belgium

[@mslisko]

😊😊😊😅

[@dolteki]

@@jonascharlier6716 well it's basically the same guy. Note that in Alsace-Moselle, it's rather an anti-Saint-Nicolas than an anti-Santa-Claus.

[@MorgorDre]

Krampus is laughing

[@im0rtalpunk]

Le père fouettard (Anti-Santa) is actually Zwarte Piet in Francophone Belgium.

[@giovannacasadio9600]

In Italy we have Santa Lucia on the 13th December and la befana on the 6th January and of course Christmas. I think it has become a big money making holiday. I personally hand make presents to gift which are appreciated a lot. Thanks for the history of Christmas ❤❤❤ Merry Christmas ❤❤❤.

[@LordJazzly]

In Australia, Christmas tends to happen in 30-40 degree (Celsius) heat. It's a cherished tradition for our now majority-secular population to get together in that heat, roast a bunch of meat, sing songs about snow, eat some watermelon, mango, pineapple, prawns, fruitcake, pudding, and pavlova, go swimming or run around under a lawn sprinkler, and then lie around on the floor all afternoon because combining all those things tends to wipe you out. Oh and about half of everyone's got a big plastic tree covered in tinsel and baubles, plus also we do the bags of chocolate coins as well which we got from the Italians.

[@lapatti]

In Italy, we celebrate the "immacolata concezione" aka immaculate conception, but it really makes no sense because it's December the 8th!!!

[@hanszickerman8051]

That is the conception of Mary, the mother of Christ. A specific Catholic celebration.

[@mychakk]

It's not connected directly with Christmas, it's a Mary holiday, and speaks of her being without the original sin. It falls on Dec 8th because traditionally, her birthday is said to be Spet 8th. So you know. Nine months earlier is the Dec 8th.

[@marielvanhees9531]

​@@hanszickerman8051 I'm sure they know that and a 3 week pregnancy is what doesn't make sense.

[@mychakk]

It's not that Mary conceived (baby Jesus) but that she WAS conceived on that day (by her parents) 9 months before her birthday, which traditionally falls on Sept 8th

[@maccale]

Here in Argentina we celebrate the conception of Mary on that day, and that is the day when we decorate our Christmas tree and Christmas time starts.

[@niravparmar5790]

I have always enjoyed ALL of your videos ! Thank you very much for being so awesome!🤩

[@davidblamires7014]

Very fun video! It was great to hear about the different traditions while accenting the dialog with some fun character interactions. It was also fun to read the other traditions people shared in the comments.

[@Unclekase]

These long form videos are lovely. Keep it up Loic 😊

[@andy_jandu]

That Ukraine spider-web story was really cute 🥺😍😭😭😭

[@DimaMuskind]

As a Ukrainian, I never heard of it... But I liked it and now want to decorate my tree with spider webs)

[@hristinatarpomanova-karastoyan]

In Bulgaria we celebrate st. Nicolas on 6th of December. Tradition says on that day to eat fish. 🐟 And Christmas is Christmas - trees, wreaths, decorations, candles, lights etc. The traditional food in the evening - odd number of Lean dishes. And of course the presents for the good children. 😊

[@Fuzzybear7680]

I. LOVE. THIS!!! You are truly AMAZING!!!

[@mrmesozoic1094]

whenever anyone tells me that its the season of giving, I come right back at them with, Well give me something then lol

[@lazylemon4081]

In Poland, on Christmas Eve, we have at least 12 different dishes and everyone has to eat at least 12 dishes before opening the presents (and yes we have presents on Christmas Eve instead of christmas day), even if its just a bit of every dish. Its 12 dishes symbolising the 12 apostles during Christ's last supper or something. Also no meat allowed on Christmas Eve... which makes me look weird at the Japanese lol. And another fun fact. Santa claus (or Saint Nicholas) was originally green. Coca cola were the ones to modernise him as red, I believe. Loved this video! Sending a very Merry Christmas to all who read this! :)

[@mychakk]

Who brings you gifts in your region? It's Baby Jesus here in this corner of Poland :)

[@lazylemon4081]

@mychakk Baby Jesus?? Never heard of baby Jesus giving gifts, but that's cool! For us its been Santa on the 6th, and "gwiazdor" and/or Santa(?) on the 24th. Never really thought about it, tbh I have no clue who gwiazdor even is. The presents just show up and I don't question it xD

[@mychakk]

@@lazylemon4081 baby Jesus, called in our language;), Dzieciątko, brings the gifts. I have heard of Gwiazdor and Santa and also of Gwiazdka bringing presents in Poland:).

[@lazylemon4081]

@mychakk it does sound a little funny, cause baby Jesus was to one to receive gifts and not give them. But then again, I don't know what to say about a "star" giving gifts xD

[@mychakk]

@lazylemon4081 there is a method to this madness ;) baby Jesus brings the presents, because he's the centre of the holiday, so it's to teach kids from the beginning who's the most important. ;)

[@simonapascariu2243]

Cette série est géniale, félicitations ! Cela m'amuse aussi de voir l'ampleur des petites différences, dans tous les aspects et situations de la vie quotidienne d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. Bravo et merci dans toutes les langues, y compris le roumain, où ils disent Mulțumesc, mais tout le monde répond Merci ! Avec l'amitié de Bucarest/Bucarest/Bucharest!🤗🤗🤗

[@raven2466]

Wow i love this video! Very fun and informative. I love all the small skits 🤣

[@briholland]

Omg, I love watching your videos! So fast, exciting, fun, educational, vibrant, sassy and hilarious. You're so engaging. Thank you and Merry Christmas! 🤩

[@SeidenKaczka]

When I was a kid, on the 6th of December, you could meet Saint Nicolas traveling around with his donkey, followed by Hans Trapp. The guys playing Hans Trapp would often have fun by threatening kids with their martinet. They'd use a very menacing voice and pretend they're going to hit the kid, until the parents eventually stopped them. Except that my parent didn't stop them, so here I am, 6 years old, running like crazy, screaming my heart out and crying of terror, while a weird, all black-dressed man is running after me trying to beat the shit out of me with his martinet, and my parents are laughing at it. Thank you for the sweet childhood memories.

[@saimam13]

"If you thought Christmas was all about presents eggnog and holly jolly whatever that is, ThiNk aGaIN!!!"

[@brezzainvernale]

Really interesting, I love the Spider story :-) So many thanks! I hope you'll get your phone 🙂We have "schmutzli", the name is the same in Italian part of Graubünden or German part. He is the aid of S. Nicolao and helps him telling if a child was good or bad. When the child is bad, he is taken away in Schmutzl's bag. Our family celebrate Christmas and Easter more spiritually. We sing, we lit candles, we stay together. But a big tree, a great meal, or making presents are really, really in the background.

[@krankarvolund7771]

Unfortunately, the spider story is fake, according to Ukrainians in the comment section, they never did that, the only ones who said they did is the New York Museum, without givin sources XD

[@theresagomez2605]

​@@krankarvolund7771while that is possible, it is also possible that there is a specific area of Ukraine where this story originated. 3 people in the KZbin comments, don't speak for everyone. Maybe some people do this. Maybe the museum fabricated it. We may never know.

[@xandraxandra1437]

In Sweden, the Christmas celebration is on December 24. All day people visit family and exchange presents. Original the Santa Claus was grey and lived at every farm. The homeowners put porridge outside to prevent an angry Santa during the next year.

[@rogsoll]

And the next day(25th),we eat leftovers from the day before, and the 26th we do nothing and not look at christmas food at all. Oh, I got to grow hunger for New Years Eve.

[@mika1060]

Loic is an amazing bridge to French culture to other cultures.

[@hisaco7856]

The 'Evil Santa' sounds like a metalhead on his way to Wacken

[@wolfqueenmarissa6062]

I love this new long form vid series. It’s very entertaining but also informative. Also Merry Christmas!!!🎄

[@anniinthewoods8287]

You forgot Iceland's 13 santas. And German Knecht Ruprecht who scares children

[@CineShinya]

When it comes to Christmas tree it is less known but it was a thing back in Byzantine Empire, where one of the emperors decorated 2 trees in Christmas in the entrance of the church. The tree they preferred was called Ειρεσιώνη and the people decorated it in their homes as well with wool white and red garlands and late autumn nuts. But this tradition stopped after ottoman empire took over. Also, in Greek, the word Christmas is Χριστούγεννα, which means Christ's birth. About Santa Claus now, the strange thing is that the Greek version of him that we still have is Saint Vasilios from Caesarea, a part of Byzantine Empire that was also occupied by the ottoman empire. This saint was known as a great tutor and philanthropist that gave gifts and money to the poor. There is also a tradition about pie where we put a coin coming from him. But in Greece we celebrate him and the gift giving at New Years, not Christmas. But we do celebrate saint Nicolas at December 6 too like French, and he is supposed to be the saint protector of the sailors. The carols in Greece are also in December 24, but also different carols for New Years' Eve and also before the celebration of Christ's baptism.

[@katharina9055]

Interesting video. But, Austria also has Nikolaus and Krampus :) (not just Netherlands and France) ...and we still use candles in Austria 😂

[@superpieton]

« I'm from Nancy » You're not the only one! Lorraine and Saint-Nicolas FTW!

[@ratchetenclank469]

It's actually kinda funny how we in Belgium, The Netherlands and apparently also parts of France celebrate both the older tradition of Saint-Nicolas (Sinterklaas) and the rebranded version Santaclaus. Also Saint-Nicolas rides on a white horse while Santa-Claus uses reindeer.

[@martinesimon4950]

A white horse 😂???No that's 'prince charmant '...

[@user-uo8yk1wj6x]

"Why would we do that?!"😂😂😂

[@SoulessStranger]

Super interesting video. In Czechia we have the St. Nicolaus (Sv. Mikuláš) day on the 5.12 where Nicolaus, Angel and Devil go around and ask the children if they behaved well and if they can sing a song or recite a poem. If yes they get sweets if not they get a lump of coal or a potato. If they were super bad then the Devil will threaten them to take them to Hell in his potato sack. Then on 24.12 we celebrate the Chrismas Eve but it is not Santa that gives us presents but Ježišek which is actually a baby Jesus but sort of like this otherworldly power that "spawns" the presents under the tree when a bell rings.

[@maxotat]

@SoulessStranger, Dejuki* for this description. My family has always celebrated Mikulàš day, as my Babi a Dede* were native Czechs, but we didn’t have all of these details. We usually had fruit and candy in the stocking (an actual sock, not a commercialized Christmas one) but also a potato or onion. One year we each received a piece of coal (really naughty). But then I became clever and asked why these were all bad things, since they were important for nutrition and heating. 😉 As a result, the following year I received a switch (for spanking 😆), so I didn’t ask “smart” questions about holidays after that. Ha ha I loved sharing this tradition with my son. Thank you, again * ( oh dear, I don’t have the correct accent mark)

[@SoulessStranger]

@@maxotat This is really cool, it is awesome you have Czech roots! And I am super happy to hear your Babi and Děda tried to keep the traditions going, that is really sweet 🥰 and that you can make new memories like that with your son! The word at the start is Děkuji - Thank you, no worries about the accent or anything, Czech is a crazy language when it comes to grammar and pronunciation nuances so it is really impressive you remembered the word at all 🙂👍

[@mArmelade_69]

I live in Colmar, it's so cool you talked about it! I remember when I was a child I would always fear the "Pere fouettard" even though I wasn't that bad of a kid. Anyway great video as always, keep it up!

[@nours5243]

Joyeux Noël à toi aussi 😊

[@isabelledrolet4297]

Loved that Home Alone reference at the end! Got me laughing out loud!!! Merry Xmas, you filthy animal, to you too!

[@maxotat]

Love this! Colmar is my new bucket list item!

[@fariesz6786]

Alsace in general is totally underrated as a travel destination. it is absolutely lovely and fascinating 🤍 my personal tip for when you go to Colmar: try the coconut macarons or whatever they are called (standard French apparently "rocher au coco," standard German "Kokosmakronen"). the ones they make there are just _amazing!_

[@werewolves_]

As I live in Lorraine I want to specify some stuff about "evil Santa in Lorraine" : according to the mythology, Père Fouettard used to be an evil butcher, who let 3 lost youths into his house for the night, only to have them diced up and thrown in his cauldron. Then Saint Nicolas came to see him, and the butcher offered him anything that wasn't incriminating, but St. Nicolas declined. Once he said he wanted what was in that cauldron, the butcher knew he was caught, and prayed for forgiveness. After reviving the victims in the cauldron, St. Nicolas recruited the butcher as the infamous "Père Fouettard", in order to redeem himself (Thus demoting the butcher from cannibal to measly hypocrite, correcting anyone who does not half as bad as he once did). This "evil Santa" is more like a "Punished Santa" and is neither magical, nor truly willing. He's also not his own boss.

[@samiraperi467]

North Pole? HERESY! Santa lives in Finland. Hell, there isn't even any land at the North Pole. :D

[@YannChemineau]

Just imagine when I went for the first time in Austrlia in December… Christmas ornaments in the streets and Santa Claus walking around while you’re wearing shorts and t-shirts!

[@theresagomez2605]

We do the same in Florida. Do you expect everyone to bundle up when there's zero chance of a "White Christmas"?

[@anniinthewoods8287]

In Germany, children need to clean their shoes for Saint Nicolas. Clean shoes get filled with sweets, dirty one shoe cleaning equipment or potatoes

[@sharonefee1426]

Both interesting and amusing! Thanks :)

[@levifzephyr]

Me : "Meah, this kings of subject was done thousands of times". Me, at the end : holy Christmas, I learned something new about it anyway. Loïc, you're amazing again! Keep it up.

[@youtubeistheboss]

These stories are amazing

[@LuminousWatcher]

Yuletide greetings, and happy winter solstice.

[@lisebetta]

This was awesome! I really like this longer format!

[@andretasse1607]

In my tradition, it's an Angel that adorn the top of the tree. The story goes like this: That year had been an awful one for Santa: The hydro bill went off the roof, the reindeer got a bug, the elves went on trike, ms Santa Clause filed for divorce! Santa was in no mood when a knock at the door startled him and made him drop his Iris Cream laden hot coco. Grudgingly, he opens the door to this little angel dragging this big tree and who said, in the most annoying voice ever: "Santa! Santa! Where should I put the Xmas tree?"

[@intelligentdonut]

Funny part is that if Mary was visited in the 6th month (Rome was using the Julian Calendar with the August change) then Jesus would have been born sometime in March or early April, pretty close to when Easter is currently celebrated,

[@PnnexD]

Sinterklaas, a sexy airline. I'm dying 🤣 Sinterklaas is actually celebrated on the 5th of December, supposedly his birthday.

[@josierice2829]

The French Christmas tradition with creepy Santa sounds exactly like Krampus from America 😅😮

[@howdy-573]

I disliked preparing myself for Halloween and seeing ads for Christmas. Apart from that, nice new format. I like it

[@anagomez3298]

In the Dominican Republic, the stores start selling Christmas decorations in September but the celebration actually starts on October 15th with Radio Guarachita.

[@benm8530]

Finally somebody says it! Of which billions live in denial!

[@TotallyGeeked]

Fantastic video. Love this format and information. :)

[@marilyncote-miller8010]

I just love all your videos!

[@ishanbhattacharya8106]

Great content!! Loving it❤

[@icarusbinns3156]

As a Pagan kitchen-witch, celebrating with food is perfect. The main eight pagan holidays are called Feast Days, after all!

[@niharikarajshree8793]

@adrianbliss: would have been pleased and perfect for this role!!!!! OMG!!!! this is good!!!

[@NingKook_]

Cool cette video ! Sinon j'aurais pensé que tu parlerais de la buche de noël !

[@darkhawk5231]

at my place in Western Germany, we do celebrate "St. Nikolaus" on the 6th. We prepare the shoes on the evening beforehand and then we get some candy in there. Christmas eve itself meanwhile is always the main thing around here. Lots of gifts and different celebrations with the family and relatives sometimes spread over multiple days!

[@arniorgumundsson3782]

is it weird that I feel left out by a weird Christmas video not including the Icelandic 13 julelads and there wicked mother Grýla =oP

[@user-vr9hy2ov7p]

In the Netherlands we celebrate ‘Sinterklaas ’ in stead of Santa Claus, and more… he doen’t live on the northpole, he lives in Spain 😂

[@salimelmouaffaq1351]

Well, 'zie ginds komt de stoomboot uit Spanje weer aan' sounds a whole lot better than 'uit de noordpool' doesnt it :P

[@Shaloplay]

Hey Loic, thanks a lot for all of fun from you, BUT I never heard about the tradition to put the spider web to the Christmas tree, not during Ukraine was the part of USSR, not before, and not now... Anyway, merry Christmas to you from Ukraine

[@Pop_o_Rap_Photo085]

8:15 Santa Claus is actually red because of Coca Cola and not KFC.🙃

[@astery5410]

I can confirm some people do celebrate Saint Nicholas AND Christmas. When I got to work on December 6th, my boss was like "Hey, it's Saint Nicholas, here's some food and fruit juice and I bought y'all some board games" I wasn't even aware it was still a thing before that, but I think it's pretty nice

[@splitp1]

Great video. You made my day!

[@normanschilling8300]

Quel joli cadeau de noël ta vidéo !!! 😁 Continue comme ça beaugosse 😘

[@AndyFarnham]

In England Father Christmas was a wise old man of the forest character, a bit like Gandalf. During the civil war period, the puritans tried to ban the fun parts of Christmas. Now one thing you don't tell the rural English is that they can't have a jolly old knees up! So they rebelled, had bigger celebrations, and Father Christmas was turned into a bit of a party animal, becoming much more jolly and enjoying booze. Then this character was taken with the colonists to North America, where it mixed with Sinterklaas, who lost the religious robes and gained fur lined clothes, usually depicted as green or red (so it wasn't Coca Cola that gave us the red Father Christmas). Today on Christmas Eve, children leave out mince pies (blurgh), sherry, and carrots for the reindeer. There are lots of jokes about Father Christmas getting sozzled from all the booze he consumes that night!

[@PsychicDave]

Up until I just looked it up, I would have guessed that a mince pie would be similar to a tourtière and be made with minced meat, but it's actually a sweet dessert. Huh. The more you know.

[@AndyFarnham]

@@PsychicDave yeah meat used to mean food. I'm not a fan of fruit so to me they're gross. I'd rather have a minced meat pie than a mincemeat pie 😁 Growing up at family Christmas gatherings, the options for dessert was usually mince pies or Christmas pudding (equally gross), so I'd have to make do with a bowl of brandy butter and get slightly tipsy (It was a hard childhood). Now mum makes sure to get a chocolate yule log for me!

[@PsychicDave]

@@AndyFarnham Here my childhood Christmas dessert was actually a large selection. My grandma would make all kinds, and cut them in ~30cm³ portions. Brownies, maple-pecan squares, fudge with marshmallows, nuts and cherries, date squares, cake with chocolate chips and dried fruit, squares that were a thin cake with a thick layer of marshmallow and topped with "sucre à la crème". And then my mom would also make chocolate cookies, peanut butter cookies, fudge with cream cheese ribbons, straight up "sucre à la crème".

[@AndyFarnham]

@@PsychicDave OK I'm drooling! I would have put on so much weight if I had your grandma and mum! Totally worth it! Hope you have a very merry chistmas and a happy new year!

[@superobinet7480]

En France, le père fouettard est plus l’ennemi de Saint-Nicolas que du Père Noël.

[@carldebilly]

In Québec, we have a special kind of songs we call "Rigodons" that only plays during the very week betweek christmas and new year. We call it "Le temps des rigodons" (Rigodons' time).

[@stiofaininnichlerigh8168]

Krampus is what your talking about he's a great guy 😅 Steph 🇮🇪 Ireland

[@mychakk]

Upper Silesia in Poland also celebrates both Dec 6th and Christmas. And on Christmas, it's Baby Jesus who brings the gifts to us. St Nicholas the bishop (we don't use Santa Claus in any version (which, worth noting, is a variation/bastariazed version of San/Saint Nicolaus...), St Nicholas brings generally sweets to children.

[@sara863g9]

“Now, of course, we use electric lights (on the trees)” Denmark: hold my beer… (quite literally) Because FIRE IS FUN!!!! Why have safety when you can have 30-40 small fires mounted to a dry tree inside your house and not be considered crazy?

[@JutlandAngel]

Missed opportunity to talk about Italy's Christmas witch, Befana.

[@Sabsemade]

I love the longer videos! In Austria, we celebrate St.Nikolaus on Decdmber 6th, and along with him Krampus on December 5th, who is basically devilled up form of the French Whipper Dude you talked about. He punishes the naughty children, while St.Nikolaus encourages the good ones. Christmas is on December 24th, not on the 25th, and presents are given in the evening of the 24th, after which everybody stuffs their stomacha with tons of food. The presents are brought by the Christkind (child of Christ), a little angle-like figure, who flies fro house to house.

[@TechNickNZ]

I had to laugh at your comment about wearing shorts and sunglasses and hearing jingle bells.. That's an Aussie and NZ tradition. Christmas is back yard BBQ and beach time down here.

[@existenceisillusion6528]

Nothing says 'I love you' like crushing debt

[@theresagomez2605]

13 dessert options.....must be where my French heritage is coming through.😂😂😂

[@mikkolukas]

6:51 In some countries (e.g. Denmark), some families still use real candles on the tree

[@juttasteinhilber6998]

In Bavaria, Germany we celebrate at the 06.12. St. Nikolaus, who comes togheter with the "Knecht Ruprecht". Nikolaus has a big golden book there is written, who was a good or a bad kid. The good kids get a present and the bad ones getting "hit" by Knecht Ruprecht (not actually! Is just a way to make your kids behave ;) ). And at the 24.12. comes the "Christkind". Most pictured as angel and brings gifts (mostly more than Nikolaus). At the 06.01. is than "Hl. drei König" as the end of the holidays. On this day children with crowns and costums are going to every house and bringing the "Sternsinger Segen" mostly with a little poem and getting sweets or little gifts in return.

[@Valhatman]

Maybe Santa is a memory of historical uap sightings😂😂