Mumfie is a ' nelifunt ', a toy that is put into Tommy's stocking by Father Christmas.

On Christmas morning, Mumfie realises that Father Christmas forgot to put his best friend Scarecrow in Tommy's stocking so Mumfie decides to search for Scarecrow.

Stockings on a fireplace mantel. A Christmas stocking hung on a bedpost.

A Christmas stocking is an empty sock or sock-shaped bag that is hung on Christmas Eve so that Santa Claus ( or Father Christmas ) can fill it with small toys, candy, fruit, coins or other small gifts when he arrives.

In some Christmas stories, the contents of the Christmas stocking are the only toys the child receives at Christmas from Santa Claus ; in other stories ( and in tradition ), some presents are also wrapped up in wrapping paper and placed under the Christmas tree.

Many families create their own Christmas stockings with each family member's name applied to the stocking so that Santa will know which stocking belongs to which family member.

Guinness World Records awarded the stocking the title of the Largest Christmas Stocking on 14 December 2007 at ExCel in London.

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I Before E ( Except After C ): Old-School Ways To Remember Stuff was a miscellany released in the UK for the Christmas 2007 " stocking filler " market, which sold well.

Because they cannot tolerate frost, tropical fruit such as citrus, bananas, and pineapples must be imported, and hence were used less often ; an orange in a Lithuanian Christmas stocking was an annual treat.

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If a person finds coal in the dough it has much the same meaning as finding coal in one's Christmas stocking ; it means you have a " black heart ".

HMV began stocking their shelves with Dylan's albums ( albeit sparingly ) in December 2005 in order to capitalize on the Christmas season.

Fifty percent of ticket sales are in the Christmas period, when Calaway does extensive marketing of its tickets as " stocking stuffers ".

In the UK, it was a custom for tradesmen to collect " Christmas boxes " of money or presents on the first weekday after Christmas as thanks for good service throughout the year.

This custom is linked to an older English tradition: Since they would have to wait on their masters on Christmas Day, the servants of the wealthy were allowed the next day to visit their families.

The custom of Christmas night liturgy was introduced in the Christian churches after the second half of the 5th century.

General Krulak attracted some attention during his tenure as commandant by his custom of delivering Christmas cookies to each marine duty post in the Washington area.

The custom of the Christmas tree developed in early modern Germany with predecessors that can be traced to the 16th and possibly the 15th century.

Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg introduced the Christmas tree to Vienna in 1816, and the custom spread across Austria in the following years.

In Britain, the Christmas tree was introduced in the time of the personal union with Hanover, by George III's Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in early 19th century, but the custom hadn't yet spread much beyond the royal family.

Queen Victoria as a child was familiar with the custom and a tree was placed in her room every Christmas.

John Brand's Popular Antiquities ( 1859 ) describes a custom in Kent of ' going a hodening ' at Christmas, going round the houses in procession and singing carols, accompanied by a sort of hobby-horse.

In the most traditional of the Catalan homes, the old custom of " fer cagar el tió " is still followed for Christmas.

In some way that is not presently understood, this may have led to the widespread custom of kissing under the mistletoe plant during the Christmas season.

According to custom, the mistletoe must not touch the ground between its cutting and its removal as the last of Christmas greens at Candlemas ; it may remain hanging through the year, often to preserve the house from lightning or fire, until it is replaced the following Christmas Eve.

According to ancient Christmas custom, a man and a woman who meet under a hanging of mistletoe were obliged to kiss.

His only " Christmas gift " is allowing his overworked, underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit Christmas Day off with pay-which he does only to keep with social custom, Scrooge considering it " a poor excuse for picking a man ’ s pocket every twenty-fifth of December!

The Japanese have a custom of sending to their friends and relatives, similar to the Western custom of sending Christmas cards.

Town musicians or ' waits ' were licensed to collect money in the streets in the weeks preceding Christmas, the custom spread throughout the population by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries up to the present day.

Traditionally, Eastern churches celebrated Epiphany ( or Theophany ) in conjunction with Christ's baptism by John the Baptist and celebrated it on January 19 ; however, many have begun to adopt the Western custom of celebrating it on January 6, the twelfth day of Christmas.

" This liturgical day is followed for all days in the Eastern rite and the custom of beginning Christmas celebration ( as well as Sunday and the other major festivals ) in the preceding evening is preserved in western Churches that have altered the liturgical day to start at midnight, for example the Roman Catholic Church.

Although pre-Christmas fasting is not a popular custom still practiced, Italian-Americans still enjoy meatless Christmas Eve feast and attend the Midnight Mass.

Hope's jokes were monitored by the State Department to avoid offending the Saudis ... and the media was restricted from covering the shows ... Because in Saudi Arabia national custom prescribes that women must be veiled in public, Ann Jillian, Marie Osmond, and the Pointer Sisters were left off Hope's Christmas Eve show.

The custom of Christmas stockings springs from a legend of St. Nicholas, in which he threw gold in the stockings of three poor sisters, thus providing for their dowries.

The fund's statewide quota this year is $8,250 to provide Christmas gifts for needy youngsters.

The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

Cider is the most popular beverage of the middle and lower economic classes at Christmas and New Year ( the upper classes proverbially preferring to celebrate with locally produced champagne, although real old-line " creole " aristocrats will still drink cider, which is much more traditional ).

From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).

Bock is historically associated with special occasions, often religious festivals such as Christmas, Easter or Lent.

In Austria, bockbier is traditionally brewed only around Christmas and Easter, when nearly every brewery brews its own bock.

Bock beer is produced in Mexico around Christmas season, under the Noche Buena label with 5. 9 % abv

Bethlehem's chief economic sector is tourism which peaks during the Christmas season when Christian pilgrims throng to the Church of the Nativity.

In a twist on Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Blackadder is the " kindest and loveliest " man in England.

Boxing Day is traditionally the day following Christmas Day, when servants and tradespeople would receive gifts from their superiors or employers.

Today, Boxing Day is better known as a bank or public holiday that occurs on 26 December, or the first or second weekday after Christmas Day, depending on national or regional laws.

In the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Catalonia, 26 December is celebrated as the Second Christmas Day.

Boxing Day is a secular holiday that is traditionally celebrated on 26 December, the day after Christmas Day, which is also St. Stephen's Day, a religious holiday.

In the UK, where Boxing Day is a bank holiday, if Boxing Day falls on a Saturday, a substitute bank holiday is given on the following Monday, but if 26 December falls on a Sunday – which means that Christmas Day, another holiday, fell on a Saturday – then the Statutory Holiday for Christmas is moved to Monday 27 December and the Statutory Holiday for Boxing Day is moved to Tuesday 28 December.