Christmas stockings - background
The legend of Christmas stockings is linked to that of St Nicholas and Father Christmas.
The story goes that there was a poor man with three daughters, in the days when it was common to pay a dowry. The man, being poor, could not afford any dowry for them and worried that his daughters would never marry.
The girls had hung their stockings to dry on the fireplace, and legend has it that St Nicholas, who was the Bishop of Myra, and believed to be the inspiration for Father Christmas, dropped some gold coins down the chimney, which landed in the girls' stockings.
When news spread of this, others began to hang stockings too in the hope that they would receive gifts.
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