Talk:Christmas stocking

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To whom it may concern:[edit]

Thanks for trying to add a little humor to wikipedia. However, we here at wikipedia want our encyclopedia to look as professional as possible. If you want to test out editing, feel free to use the sandbox. You can post anything you like there. [[User:GregNorc|GregNorc (talk) ]]

Are you referring to the person who captioned a picture "Stockings hung by the chimney with care"? I was wondering if that belonged too. Pizzadinosaur (talk) 17:07, 25 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tradition/5 senses[edit]

I've never heard of this tradition--items for the 5 senses--in any personal interactions or in any reading or nowhere nohow. Can you cite the culture or society in which this is a common tradition? Elf | Talk 23:21, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Stocking or socks?[edit]

It should be called Christmas socks instead of stocking. Bennylin (talk) 21:31, 21 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Christmas stockings, even though they look like big socks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.80.73.136 (talk) 10:33, 11 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Country-specific origins?[edit]

I came in looking for country-specific origins of the custom. I'm still not sure if the stockings are more of an American custom or if there are long traditions of Christmas stockings other countries from before the late 19th century/early 20th century or so. So is it the Americans who popularised the tradition, or was it a long-standing thing in Europe before? Can anyone shed more light on this?--Snowgrouse (talk) 23:27, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

defiantly Europe, pagan pre-christian Europe in fact. appropriated from the Germanic Norse religion. boots by the fire with food for Odin's 8 legged flying horse Slipnier became stocking by the fire with carrots and mince pies/cookies & brandy/milk for Father Christmas/Santa and his 8 flying reindeer ^[1]

References

^ Siefker, Phyllis. Santa Claus, Last of the Wild Men: The Origins and Evolution of Saint Nicholas, Spanning 50,000 Years (chap. 9, esp. 171-173) (2006) ISBN 0-7864-2958-5

Sort of a weird article[edit]

I feel like this article is eccentric in several ways. -The "History" section goes off on a random legend about the origin of stockings. It seems unnecessary, or at least poorly introduced. I think it ought to be condensed or removed. -The paragraph after the legend ("This led to the custom of...") is just a mess. Unprofessional tone, poor sentence flow, doubtful significance. -The last two lines of that section are not "History." More like modern cultural information. -I feel weird about the "World's Largest Christmas Stocking" section. Should this have its own section? Seems like a fun fact, perhaps worth a sentence or two in a different section. This section alone makes me doubt the significance of the whole article a little bit.

Anyway, I fixed a couple of things, but it's midnight and I'm going to bed. Maybe I'll take another hack at this later. Isaaclyman (talk) 05:58, 12 October 2011 (UTC)Isaaclyman[reply]

History of largest stocking... needs edits?[edit]

Is the section concerning the history of largest recorded stocking correct?

It appears to me that it may have gotten out of proper order due to edits. It appears to claim that the record in 2010 predates the record set in 2007. I.e. it says the current record was set in 2011, the prior record in 2007, and (presumably the prior record to THAT) in 2010. I don't have time to do the research right now but wanted to put this up so it isn't forgotten and left unaddressed.

Forbin1 (talk) 20:32, 12 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Siefker, Phyllis. Santa Claus, Last of the Wild Men: The Origins and Evolution of Saint Nicholas, Spanning 50,000 Years (chap. 9, esp. 171-173) (2006) ISBN 0-7864-2958-5

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