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# The BFD Map of the Day: Christmas Gift-Bringers of Europe
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-map-of-the-day-christmas-gift-bringers-of-europe/
- Published: 2019-12-24T01:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-12-22T04:31:06.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: World, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

This year, will you be visited by Father Christmas, Santa Claus, Grandfather Frost, John Chimney or Christmas Gnome?

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/31/f4/31f4e20a-0315-499e-83ff-139e8eab53bf/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/christmas-gift-bringers-europe.jpg)

An infographic made by 26-year-old Czech linguist, mathematician, and artist Jakub Marian shows the names of gift-bringers at Christmas around Europe in one handy map.

As Marian elaborates on his website:

> Each country (or region) has its own traditional Christmas gift-bringer. Some of them are quite nice, such as the British Father Christmas, others are outright weird, such as the Catalan “defecating log”, but all of them are equally interesting.  
>  
> [https://jakubmarian.com/christmas-gift-bringers-of-europe/](https://jakubmarian.com/christmas-gift-bringers-of-europe/?ref=goodoil.news)