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The following is from Veronika, a Czech National living in Ireland:
| On 6th December St. Nicholas (Svaty Mikulas) visits Czech children in thatevening alongside with an Angel and the Devil (Cert). Sv. Mikulas carries a bigbook with him and reads out which children were good and who wasn't. As achild we would have to sing a song or tell some short or poem. If we werein the good books we got a bag full of fruits, nuts, sweets and othergoodies. If we were bad, we got a coal. (Basically in practice all kids gottheir goodie bag with the few pieces of coal on the bottom.) Also we usuallygot our Advent Calendar with chocolates as well on that day. |  Veronika at 5 years old -- 1978 in Prague |
 | However the main day for getting your presents is always December 24th(Christmas Eve - "Stedry vecer") in the Czech Republic. You have yourChristmas dinner and then you have to wait for "Jezisek" (Infant Jesus) tocome with the prezzies and lit Christmas tree. You have to wait for thebell, which was the sign, he was there. Then you ran into the main room andthere was that magic - the lit Christmas tree with candles and the presentsunderneath it. |
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