What does Santa leave in the stockings of naughty children?
Santa Claus coal is now considered archaic. Children following the Dutch custom for "sinterklaas" will "put out their shoe" (leave hay and a carrot for his horse in a shoe before going to bed, sometimes weeks before the "sinterklaas avond"). The next morning they will find the hay and carrot replaced by a gift; often, this is a marzipan figurine. Naughty children were once told that they would be left a "roe" (a bundle of sticks) instead of sweets, but this practice has been discontinued. Other Christmas Eve Santa Claus rituals in the United States include reading "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
Santa Claus in film Santa Claus in film Motion pictures featuring Santa Claus abound and apparently constitute their own subgenre of the Christmas film genre. Early films of Santa revolve around similar simple plots of Santa's Christmas Eve visit to children. In 1897, in a short film called "Santa Claus Filling Stockings", Santa Claus is simply filling stockings from his pack of toys. Another film called "Santa Claus and the Children" was made in 1898. A year later, a film directed by George Albert Smith in titled "Santa Claus" (or "The Visit from Santa Claus" in the United Kingdom) was created. In this picture,