FRIEND OF THE CHILDREN AND LEVERS
Nikolaus lived in 4. Century in today's Turkey. Its grave can be
visited in the Myraer church, in which it served as a bishop.
Over St. Nikolaus, which is friend of the children and levers,
many legends where told. Pupils, whom a cash-greedy host had
killed,
it is to have shown the life. It threw three gold lumps into a
room,
in order to prevent that poor daughters must earn themselves
outer-expensively on the road.
Because the gold lumps fell by a fire-place directly into the
socks
of the women, the custom developed to place its deseamed shoes
before the door or to hang a sock to the fire-place around the
turn
of the century.
In the Berchtesgadener country is accompanied Nikolaus by farmhand
Ruprecht and Bertha (Nikoloweibl). In some areas the Nikolaus in
the
holy evening brings secretly also the decorated Christian tree in
the house.
Greetings
Gisela
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