The tradition of the christmas stockings began in a story told since ancient time about a kind noble man who had three daughters. The wife of the nobleman died and the daughters and their father were very sad and the daughters had to do all the work in the house. When the daughters became eligible for marriage, the poor father could not afford to give huge dowries to their husbands. One evening the daughters, after washing their stockings hung them near the fire place to be dried.
Santa claus being moved by the plight of the daughters came in and put bags of gold in each of the three stockings hanging by the chimney. The next morning the family noticed the gold bags and the nobleman had enough for his daughters marriage. The daughters got married and they lived happily ever after. since then children have been hanging christmas stockings.
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