The truth about Santa Claus
” They have such violence in Holland, but rather than duking it out among themselves, Santa and his former slaves decided to take it out on the public. In the early years, if a child was naughty, Saint Nicholas and the six to eight black men would beat him with what Oscar described as “the small branch of a tree.”
“A switch?”
“Yes,” he said. “That’s it. They’d kick him and beat him with a switch. Then, if the youngster was really bad, they’d put him in a sack and take him back to Spain.”
“Saint Nicholas would kick you?”
David Sedaris, Six to Eight Black Men
[x]#291 fan donderdag 26 december 2002 @ 23:21:56
lieuwe op 28 december 2002 @ 16:55:25
It positive oan Sinterklaas fyn ik noch altyd, is; dat je al jong leare, dat it minsdom net te fertrouwen is.