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Nicholas learned of a poor man who had three daughters who could not afford to pay dowries for them to marry. He planned to sell his daughters into prostitution. Nicholas came late at night, on three different occasions, and dropped a bag of gold coins down the chimney so the man would have a dowry for each daughter.
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Did Saint Nicholas drop three bags of gold down a chimney?
Legend and tradition says that he did so that the three daughters of a poor man would have dowries and would not be sold into prostitution.
How did Saint Nicholas get into a house?
Nicholas of Myra would toss his gifts through an open window or down a chimney and would not personally enter a house.
Why do people believe santa comes down the chimny?
Traditional folklore regarding Saint Nicholas of Myra says that he had a reputation for secret gift-giving, such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him. This turned into a folk-tale of him dropping coins down a chimney of a poor family and they fell into the stockings which had been hung to dry in the fireplace. That then turned into the chimney-descending we know today.
What can go down the chimney up the chimney but not up the chimney down the chimney?
an umbrella
What goes up a chimney down and down a chimney down but never up a chimney up or down a chimney up?
I don't get why, but it's an umbrella
What did Saint Nicholas put in the stockings for the three daughters?
Saint Nicholas put gold coins in the stockings of the three daughters to serve as dowries so that they could get married. This act of generosity became the basis for the tradition of hanging stockings by the fireplace that is practiced during Christmas time.
What goes up a chimney when down but can't go down the chimney when up?
A chimney.
Bind it and it walks loose it and it stops?
What may go down the chimney up but not down the chimney down?
What goes up the chimney down but down the chimney up?
an umbrella
What can go up a chimney down but not a down chimney up?
An umbrella
What goes up the chimney when down but can't go down the chimney up?
Smoke
What goes up a chimney down but wont come down a chimney up?
an umbrella
