Pickle Nick!
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Those are some weird as fuck looking children.
You would look weird too if you had been through what they had!
In that time the belief was that Jesus was perfect already when he was born, thus he was painted as an adult. This spread to other religious paintings containing children too, thus we have these creepy kids.
I believe they're called homunculus. I couldn't find too much on them, but here's an article. https://www.thecollector.com/baby-jesus-in-medieval-religious-iconography
They weren't children after all; they were adults and the pickling shrunk them
That is what they looked like in the olden days.
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An interesting side note I just discovered on Wikipedia:
The boots-filled-over-night tradition is based on another legend of him throwing gold pieces through the window of three poor daughters so that their dad doesn't have to force them to become prostitutes.
Didn't expect the roots of St.Nicholas traditions to be that dark...
I say we all take a leaf out of the conservative playbook and demand to bring back the real Santa.
Not sure about that.
Traditional figures like Zwarte Piet might also reappear...
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Those children look like very wrong.
Stop looking at their asses
i'm more looking at the chest hair
it's the back abs, for me
We've all read Pet Semetary, right?
The painter had never seen a child, so, I think he did a nice job.
They remind me of Attack on Titan, but miniature.
Attack on a bunch of short dudes.
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Ok so he just let people starve instead of having them have even three measly pickled children. Fucking priests, the REAL Jesus would have turned those three kids into a pickled feast feeding at least five thousand.
Don't worry, it's a made up story anyway
you mean to tell me there wasn't actually a depickling necromancer roaming the streets?
Now I am imagining an anthropomorphic cucumber going around turning my pickles into seeds and planting them in soil.
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"resurrected the pickled children" goes hard.
Resurrected Pickled Children sounds like a good metal band.
Here in Flanders and to the north in the Netherlands we actually get told this story. Sinterklaas, who visits on the eve of the 5th (NL) or during the night (BE) is our OG Santa Claus.
For kids Sinterklaas is the main event, whereas Christmas is when you get given… socks. Last few years the focus seems to have shifted more to Christmas though.
Glad we got rid of ‘Zwartepiet’ though (Sinterklaas’s helpers). Think ‘elves’ except human-size, not-elf and with blackface.
I grew up attending international schools. Seeing my Dutch classmate dressed as zwartepiet getting called to the principal’s office is a core memory.
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Whenever he’s brought up I never miss the opportunity to mention that he was from Türkiye
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fuck now i want doner
Nah mate they (used to maybe? idk) play that song to children in schools where I grew up. The song literally says that the butcher kills the children, chop them off and cure them in salt. I never saw it that way but it's quite a hardcore children song. I wonder if they still do that lol.
Where are you from?
I'm going to guess France
Some Dutch person also mentioned that it is part of the story the kids get told.
I'm fairly certain only a small subset of (religious) children are told that story. It's not a part of the 'normal' stories at least.
he also got into a fist fight at the nicean council
From the Wikipedia page for Saint Nicholas
Other early stories tell of him calming a storm at sea, saving three innocent soldiers from wrongful execution, and chopping down a tree possessed by a demon.
Which he then turned into a toy car and gave to my kids to play with. Cause I fucking swear my kids are possessed.
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His necromancer career lacked longevity which is a key metric to determine memory.
Renaissance Artist Draw An Actual Child Challenge: Impossible
"The pickled children" sounds like a metal band name
I was gonna say St. Nick and the Pickled Children and call it a garage band.
There was also that time he slapped a bishop for teaching the heresy that Jesus was less than God
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