Figure
Father Christmas
Folkloric personification of Christmas in several English‐speaking parts of the world
- Child of Old Man Winter
- Consort of Mother Christmas
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Family
The family of Father Christmas
Parents, consorts and children as the accounts give them. Choose a consort to see the children the stories give the two.
Accounts differ about a god’s family. Where they name different parents, the tree sets them side by side instead of choosing one.
The family as a list · 2
Kinship in an account 2
What this means
Parentage as a named source tells it. Not an independently established biological relationship, and different accounts disagree.
Does not imply an independently established biological relationship · agreement between accounts · marriage as a legal institution · exclusivity, or a single canonical pairing
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Connections
How Father Christmas connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 3
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Recorded events and days 2
What this means
Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began.
Does not imply that these are all the events in its history · that Wikidata ranks the events by importance
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
11 statements on this record
- 2 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 8 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
- 1 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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and people in the telling.