You can often hear that Santa Claus and Santa Claus are one and the same. However, Santa Claus has several important differences from Santa Claus, which is due to historical, literary, and often geographical, as well as climatic factors. So, what are the external differences between Santa Claus and Santa!
1. The color of the clothes! - Santa Claus has a long blue sheepskin coat, he is belted with a sash, he has a hat on his head, boots on his feet, mittens on his hands, a staff in his hands. - Santa has a red jacket and a belt, a cap and boots, gloves, and a pipe in his hands.
Santa Claus can also be in red, but at the same time he can wear other clothes - in general, it is desirable that it be white, blue, it can be both yellow and green. Also, the attire of a real Santa Claus does not cover a solid color - it is diluted with patterns, embroidery, trim (white or blue), etc.
And in the clothes of Santa Claus, an aggressive solid red color prevails (exclusively this one!), And only the edge of his jacket is sometimes white.
The color of clothes is red: It is unlikely that this is a Russian Grandfather!
From history: The traditional clothes of the Russian Father Frost are white, embroidered with silver thread ("frosty" patterns). In late tsarist times (the end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th centuries), clothes of a "cold" blue color, embroidered with silver thread, and yellow, embroidered with a "golden" thread, appeared.
After the proletarian revolution of 1917, red clothes appeared (under the color of the international proletarian flag), embroidered with silver thread.
After the 1960s, the Muslim peoples of the USSR for Santa Claus occasionally began to practice green clothes, also embroidered with patterns.
Modern traditions of Santa Claus robes: It is desirable that it be real silver - white, almost completely embroidered with silver patterns. Santa Claus can be in a red or blue robe embroidered with patterns. It is permissible that it be "golden" - yellow, embroidered with "golden" threads.
The attire of a real Santa Claus does not cover a solid color - it is necessarily diluted with patterns, embroidery, trim (white or blue), etc.
In the clothes of an alien Santa Claus, an aggressive solid red color prevails (exclusively this one!), And only the edge of his miserable jacket is sometimes white.
The red robes of Santa Claus were introduced during the Soviet era as ideologically consistent with the color of the international proletarian revolutionary red flag. This is ridiculous. Santa Claus is an ancient pagan god of our ancestors of very old "pre-proletarian" times.
2. Cap! The most typical feature! - The real Santa Claus can NEVER be in a cap - he is wearing a boyar hat. - And on Santa Claus - a jester's cap with a pom-pom, like a prankster gnome, which immediately gives him an atypical for Santa Claus frivolity and parody.
When you see the cap - Be sure: this is the enemy!
3. Outerwear. - Santa Claus is wearing a short jacket (sometimes just below the waist, sometimes even up to the waist), intercepted by a belt. Below the katsaveyka are red pants. Remember that in such mocking clothes the true Santa Claus of our Russian winter will never endure. - Santa Claus should have a long fur coat to the ground, from under which no pants should be visible. The sight of pants sticking out from under a short fur coat destroys all solidity. What Santa Claus has under a fur coat is sacred and cannot be put on display!
If you saw pants on Grandfather - Know: this Grandfather is not from our country!
4. Shoes, gloves, belt. - Santa Claus is always wearing boots, often of a shortened type, which again is ridiculous for our climate. - Santa Claus should only have felt boots!
If Grandfather is wearing boots - Know that enemies walk in them!
Santa Claus has warm mittens on his hands, Santa Claus has light gloves.
Mittens are good for autumn, but in cold weather it is better to wear mittens. The classic image requires that the mittens be three-fingered white, embroidered with silver - a symbol of purity and holiness of everything that he gives from his hands. Three-fingeredness has been a symbol of belonging to the highest divine principle since the Neolithic.
Santa Claus has a white belt; or with a trim to match the color of the fur coat. Santa Claus has a belt with a buckle. (Maybe demobilization? :-))
Again - the difference in climate. In the cold, the leather belt will simply crack. And how can you fasten the buckle in mittens?
5. Beard. - Santa Claus has a short beard, like a kind of civilized old man, and curly, like a lamb from a children's postcard. Curly skipper beard! - All this is absolutely not typical for Santa Claus. Father Frost's beard is wild, long, tousled by the free wind, and in most cases there is no sugary curlyness in it.
Does Grandpa have a short beard? Trouble threatens the nation!
6. Growth and volume. From all the previous rantings, in general, it is clear that Santa Claus is indecently small in size. And Santa Claus is impressive in growth, like a true ruler of the New Year! As for volume, Santa Claus is quite skinny. Well, yes, his clothes are figs, so, for the sake of formality. But Santa Claus, in accordance with the Russian winter, wears a lot of warm clothes, and all the clothes are real, fur, thick. So Santa Claus is impressive in terms of volume!
If Grandfather is both skinny and shallow - Drive away such boldly!
Sometimes it happens that in terms of volume, Santa Claus, on the contrary, rushes to the opposite extreme and becomes fat and round. But remember that his thickness always looks unnatural and caricature, while all the proportions of Santa Claus are always harmonious, and his thickness never conflicts with his height.
7. Points. Also, for Santa Claus, such a sign of culture as glasses is typical. Santa Claus does not have this feature. How can this omnipotent spirit of Nature - Santa Claus - have such a drawback as myopia ?! Myopia is inherent only in those who are corrupted by a pernicious civilization, who are tamed and domesticated to the point of complete degeneration, as happened with Santa Claus.
8. Snow Maiden. It's also a hallmark. Santa Claus has never had and never will have a granddaughter, because his prototype is St. Nicholas, almost like any saint, was chaste. And our natural Grandfather has a granddaughter, this is everyone's favorite Snow Maiden! So there are two of us, and Santa Claus is just one! The Snow Maiden is the granddaughter of Santa Claus, she accompanies him everywhere. The image of the Snow Maiden is a symbol of frozen waters. This is a girl dressed only in white clothes (or colors resembling frozen water). The headdress of Grandfather Frost's granddaughter is an eight-pointed crown embroidered with silver and pearls.
Santa sometimes still has Mrs. Santa Claus, but she is almost invisible.
9. Staff. - Please note: the staff of Santa Claus is a standard staff of a Catholic bishop (for it is not for nothing that Santa Claus comes from St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra): a stick with a curved top.
But Santa Claus does not have to St. Nicholas has nothing to do, so his staff should only be a straight stick, it can have a round knob (or, at least, in the form of a star; the staff should not be rounded at all).
10. Deer. - Only Santa Claus moves, as the Americans teach us in their movies and cartoons, on deer across the sky.
Deer have never been a means of transportation for Santa Claus. For our Grandfather, the deer is small and weak. Santa Claus can ride a Russian troika, not in the sky, but quite on the ground, or rather on the snow, - he is the flesh of the flesh of this snow, this earth, this nature, why should he break away from his native roots, snow rises from under the runners dust, frosty wind beats in the face, Santa Claus rolls with daring and bells! A dashing troika is rushing across the Russian Land - then the owner of Winter, Grandfather Frost, is going around his boundless possessions! And Santa Claus goes skiing!!! A real athlete!
But in general, as already mentioned, Santa Claus moves in a mystical way, and there is nothing to climb into sacred matters.
11. Socks on the fireplace. - This applies only to Santa Claus, not to Santa Claus. The socks on the mantelpiece are a purely Western tidbit: supposedly Santa Claus comes down the chimney and puts a gift in the sock. However, what to explain - a fool understands that there have never been any fireplaces in Rus'. Yes, and our Grandfather will not crawl into some kind of narrow fireplace, why would he? In addition, Santa Claus would never have appeared in our country in such a primitive and mundane way as they do: "Penetrating the house through pipes and windows, he lays out gifts in stockings, most often hung on the fireplace, and tinkles with bells, as if announcing about the arrival of the New Year.
Santa Claus appears in our homes in a certain mystical way, truly like a spirit, no one really knows how he appears - we only know that he WAS ... And trying to explain this sacred secret in a Western manner in a rational way is blasphemy.
And further. Our Santa Claus is a real generous Russian soul, he is not so miserable and tight-fisted to limit his gift to the size of an idiotic and most often striped sock!
12. Other related paraphernalia - all sorts of wreaths, bells, etc., including the songs "Jingle Bells" and others. All this is purely Christmas paraphernalia and is associated only with Santa Claus, and all this Western consumer goods should not be attributed to the image of Santa Claus.
13. More very important differences:
Santa Claus is much older than Santa Claus, whose modern image was created by the American writer Clement Clark Moore, who described his appearance and habits in detail in his poem "The Night Before Christmas" in the early 19th century. - Santa Claus holds a pipe in his mouth - smokes!!! (Recently, this detail is becoming less and less common). Santa Claus leads a healthy lifestyle and does not smoke.
There are many differences between Santa and Santa Claus. First of all, these characters live in different parts of the world. In addition, they differ in appearance and habits.
Differences between Santa from the Russian Santa Claus in appearance
The Santa Claus costume is always red. Santa Claus wears a white or blue fur coat. Moreover, his outerwear looks more elegant, because it is embroidered with gold and silver threads. The suit of the Western New Year's grandfather is decorated with fur trim. In addition, fur coats differ in shape. Klaus has a short sheepskin coat with a black belt. Frost is dressed in a fur coat with a length to the heels, which is girded with an embroidered sash.
Santa differs from Santa Claus in the form of clothing.
Grandfather has a fur hat on his head that can protect him from severe frost, and Santa calmly walks in a nightcap with a pompom. Their shoes are also different. The Western fairy-tale grandfather has high black boots, while the Russian one has white or gray felt boots. In extreme cases, Frost can wear red boots with a raised toe. Klaus wears black or white gloves, and Grandfather won't go outside without fur mittens.
Other differences
Clothes are not the only thing that distinguishes these two New Year's characters. External differences:
- Satellites. Santa goes to the children alone, but elves and gnomes work for him. Frost himself creates gifts, but he comes to visit the kids in the company of the Snow Maiden.
- Means of transport. Grandfather walks, but sometimes appears on a sleigh drawn by three horses. A Western character travels on a wagon pulled by 12 deer.
- Beard. Our grandfather has a waist-length beard. The second New Year's hero wears a rather short beard.
- attributes. Frost holds a magical crystal staff in his hands, with which he freezes everything around. Santa has nothing in his hands. But on the other hand, glasses flaunt in front of his eyes, and a pipe smokes in his mouth. Although this attribute is not currently used due to the anti-tobacco campaign.
- Location. Our Frost hails from Veliky Ustyug, a city in the Vologda region. Santa comes to the children from Lapland.
- Height. In fairy tales, Frost has a heroic physique. He is lean and strong. The second grandfather is a short and rather well-fed old man.
- Behavior. Slavic grandfather comes to children and gives them gifts for telling poems or singing songs. Santa, on the other hand, sneaks through the chimney at night, and leaves toys under the tree or hides them in socks tied to the fireplace.
Despite the differences, Santa and Santa Claus have a lot in common. They both appear on winter holidays and give gifts to obedient boys and girls.
The European Santa Claus has already taken root in Belarusian realities so much that few people think about how he differs from Father Frost. In the meantime, there are many differences!
1. Headdress
Santa Claus has a hat trimmed with fur. Santa Claus has a nightcap with a pom-pom.
2. Beard
Santa Claus has a long one, to the waist. Santa Claus has a short spade beard.
3. Outerwear
Santa Claus has a warm fur coat to the toes. Santa Claus has a short jacket.
4. Coat color
Santa Claus's fur coat can be red, blue and even white (colors associated with frost. - Ed). Santa Claus has only red.
5. Staff
Santa Claus holds a staff in his hands. Santa Claus has a bag with gifts in his hands.
6. Belt
Santa Claus has a white belt. Santa Claus has a belt with a buckle.
7. Shoes
Santa Claus has white felt boots. Santa Claus has black boots.
8. Glasses
Santa Claus has poor eyesight and wears glasses. Santa Claus sees well, so he does not have any glasses.
9. Vehicle
Classic Santa Claus walks. Modern - in a sleigh pulled by a trio of horses. Santa Claus rides in a cart pulled by reindeer.
10. Helpers
Grandfather Frost is helped by his granddaughter Snegurochka. Elves work for Santa Claus.
By the way, the Christian Saint Nicholas is considered the prototype of Santa Claus and Santa Claus. He lived a long time ago in the Turkish city of the World and was a good miracle worker and persecutor of evil, the patron of abducted and lost children. In Russia, Nikolai Ugodnik became one of the most beloved saints by the people. Ordinary peasants prayed to him for help if a cow fell ill, there was no rain for a long time, or some other misfortune happened. Gradually, St. Nicholas in Western countries began to be called in English - Santa Claus. But in Russia, the translation of the name of the saint was given a very peculiar one. The thing is that in the Soviet years, religious symbols were actively crowded out and, according to the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russia in 1937, the saint was replaced by a character named Santa Claus () NEW YEAR SHOPPING
By the way, the Christian Saint Nicholas is considered the prototype of Santa Claus and Santa Claus. He lived a long time ago in the Turkish city of Mira and was a good miracle worker and a persecutor of evil, a patron of abducted and lost children. In Russia, Nikolai Ugodnik became one of the most beloved saints by the people. Ordinary peasants prayed to him for help if a cow fell ill, there was no rain for a long time, or some other misfortune occurred. Gradually, St. Nicholas in Western countries began to be called in English - Santa Claus. But in Russia, the translation of the name of the saint was given a very peculiar one. The thing is that in the Soviet years, religious symbols were actively crowded out and, according to the decision of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Russia in 1937, the saint was replaced by a character named Santa Claus ()
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To the question, what is the difference between Santa Claus and Santa Claus? given by the author ce la vie the best answer is YES, the fact that Santa Claus is left with a Glass of milk and cookies !!! and Santa Claus is treated to vodka and snacks :))
Answer from stoirosovy[guru]
grandfather is an old man... and santa is a merry jerk who is disliked by American children...
Answer from common people[guru]
Santa Claus Russian
Answer from Neurosis[active]
Santa Claus has a trendy mini shirt and glasses... :))) the main thing is that the functions should not start to differ...
Answer from Lenore ((Little Bunny Foo-Foo))[guru]
Santa Claus has a normal granddaughter... and Santa has only some creepy dwarfs...
and Santa Claus climbs into the house through a pipe, and Grandfather Frost, like all normal people, through the door ... and he doesn’t stuff gifts into socks, but under the Christmas tree ... and he also has a staff ... and in general Santa Claus is the best!
Answer from Maverick[guru]
... Somehow, all my life I imagined the real Santa Claus in a luxurious blue sheepskin coat, like in the movie "Morozko". And Santa Claus - in a short red jacket and a cap, in fact, dressed like a gnome. Such a big gnome.
last year I came across a whole table with a list of differences between the SC and the DM, and there were (differences) in bulk. I began to look for more materials on the net, and fell on 115,000 links on the topic "action: Santa Claus against Santa Claus", where I learned a lot of indignant comparisons: how much our, rough and condo Santa Claus is better than theirs Santa Claus.
Interestingly, in the same request, the second item was "how to get gifts from Santa Claus." Pretty typical. So, if we summarize the essence and reject emotions, we get a list of differences:
It has already been said about the long blue sheepskin coat DM, it is belted with a sash, a hat on its head, felt boots on its feet, mittens on its hands, a staff in its hands.
SK has a red jacket and a belt, a cap and boots, gloves, and a pipe in his hands.
DM has a long bushy beard, SK has a curly skipper beard.
DM has a Snow Maiden, and SK has Mrs. Santa Claus, but she is almost invisible.
DM goes skiing or rides on a trio of white horses, and SK flies on a team of reindeer.
DM puts gifts under the Christmas tree, and SK in a stocking over the fireplace.
DM enters the house with pomp, loudly looking for the Snow Maiden and digging into the children about behavior, and then gives gifts. SK penetrates through the pipe (evil spirit?) and secretly.
Another important difference is that Santa Claus is much older than SK, whose modern image was created by the American writer Clement Clark Moore, who described his appearance and habits in detail in his poem "The Night Before Christmas" in the early 19th century.
Answer from Vas Patrica[guru]
It seems to me that Santa Claus is more independent, as he goes everywhere without the Snow Maiden. He puts gifts in a big red sock and does not appear in Russia.
Answer from POPOV ALEXEI[expert]
Santa Claus is power. Klaus is like Adam's rib
