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Christmas trees actually spread from Lutheran Germans in the 1500s. Yule trees are not some romantic Asatru fantasy fulfillment, they are almost more than a thousand years separated from real Pagans.

And Santa Claus is literally Saint Nicholas, the ancient third century (older than all written sources of Northern Paganism) Bishop of Smyrna. Not some Odinic wanderer type. The Candy cane, an authentic traditional christmas symbol, is a bishop’s crozier- a shepherd’s staff that represents the bishops duty to guard the flock. European parents were telling their European kids about Saint Nick bringing christmas gifts for a longer time than they ever cared about dumb Pagan gods.

>>14474215
To fend off the emerging heresies and maintain Catholic orthodoxy.

>>14422456
Saint Nick actually was from Anatolia.