What ever happened to the good old days? We went from kids sitting on Santa’s lap to children writing to Santa’s new laptop.
Early representations and without a laptop of the jolly gift-giver from Church history and folklore, notably St Nicholas, merged with the English Father Christmas to create the mythical character known to Americans and the rest of the English-speaking world as "Santa Claus" a phonetic derivation of "Sinterklaas" in Dutch.
In the English and later British colonies of North America, and later in the United States, British and Dutch versions of the gift-giver merged further. For example, in Washington Irving's History of New York (1809), Sinterklaas was Americanized into "Santa Claus" (a name first used in the American press in 1773 but lost his bishop's apparel, and was at first pictured as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat. Irving's book was a lampoon of the Dutch culture of New York, and much of this portrait is his joking invention.
Irving's interpretation of Santa Claus was part of a broader movement to tone down the increasingly wild Christmas celebrations of the era, which included aggressive home invasions under the guise of wassailing, substantial premarital sex (leading to shotgun weddings in areas where the Puritans, waning in power and firmly opposed to Christmas, still held some influence) and public displays of sexual deviancy; the celebrations of the era were derided by both upper-class merchants and Christian purists alike
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