When asked whether the Santa Claus exists, the adults answer “yes, ” confident that they are cunning. But I don’t want to deprive a child of a fairy tale. Or maybe it's time to tell the truth?
If you ask pre-schoolers about this, then most likely the friendly answer is “Yes!”, Younger students will start shaking their heads doubtfully. Adults will agree with the hero of Alexander Green, who said: "I understood one simple truth. It is to do miracles with my own hands …"
These words of Arthur Gray, the hero of the extravaganza "Scarlet Sails", became winged.
Parents take on the role of good wizards on New Year's Eve to please their little ones, eagerly hurrying to the Christmas tree in search of long-awaited gifts.
On the other hand, a fairy-tale grandfather with a white beard can be seen at every New Year's holiday, receive a gift that he will take out of his huge bag, take a picture with him. Here he is - alive, real! So think the kids. With age, they understand that there are many such wizards, and a doubt arises in the children's heart: is there really Santa Claus?
Hero of Slavic mythology Frost
The prototype of modern Santa Claus can be called a hero of Slavic mythology, a deity who "was responsible" for the onset of winter colds. Different Slavic tribes named it in their own way: Zimnik, Snegovey, Treskun, Karachun, Studenets and, by the way, Frost. It was he who froze rivers and lakes, sent cold and icy winds with blizzards, covered the ground with snow. Like any deity, Frost could not be too supportive of people: he would freeze winter crops, and he could chill out the barn, and put ice in wells and put impassable snowdrifts on roads.
In a word, his character didn’t look much like the good-natured grandfather Frost, familiar to a modern person. But outwardly he looked like: the Slavs represented him as a tall and strong old man with a long beard. This image can be found in literary works. Such, for example, is Moroz Ivanovich in the tale of V. Odoevsky "Morozko" and the hero of A. Nekrasov's poem "Frost, red nose."
So, if we consider Frost the spirit of cold and winter, as the Slav ancestors did, then we can say that it really exists: after all, winter cold comes every year, frost puts the earth in the snow and covers it with snow until next spring. The laws of nature are constant, and the forces responsible for them are invariable.
