a Holilday Boot camp is in session! Footwear of various types figure in a good many Christmas customs. In the Netherlands they might leave Dutch ( wooden) footwear out. Christmas stockings are a form of foot covering. In a number of places they have the custom, in hotels or apartment houses, of leaving shoes out in the hallway- evidentally porters or staff deposit reverse-tips. something like shoe shines. The fairly recent song ( the Christmas Shoes) is a morbid addition to pedal Yule lore!
Christmas shoes?
Traditionally they leave out wooden shoes to be filled with candies and other small gifts
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Australia and Ukraine hang spider webs on their Christmas tree. A spider web is supposed to bring luck to that family that have the spider web.
You hang Christmas stockings, with care.
In France, children leave shoes by the fireplace on Christmas Eve so that Pere Noel (the French version of Santa Claus) can fill them with presents while they are asleep.
The Christmas Shoes - song - was created in 2000.
You hang stockings, with care.
People hang stockings so they can be filled with small treats on Christmas eve.
In Sweden, it is traditional to put out shoes rather than hang up stockings for the holiday season. Children often leave their shoes out on December 13th for St. Lucia Day, and it is customary for them to receive small gifts or treats. This practice is part of the broader Swedish Christmas customs, which emphasize celebration and family gatherings.
many places in europe do. i know that germany and holland do for sure