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.
There was also that time he slapped a bishop for teaching the heresy that Jesus was less than God
As god is generally regarded as the trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, that other bishop wasn’t wrong though…
he was wrong. see the Nicean-Constantipolitan Creed.
I just did some Wikipedia surfing on the topic.
Made clear to me again that the best way to classify Christian lore is as “High Fantasy”.
The whole discussions happening in the years 400 AD sound like some classic nerd turf war.
Perhaps in 500 years there will be some religion based on Warhammer or so…
That would be an ecumenical matter
ls that also some theologial schism topic? Damn, it sure is complicated… :-)
Post-hoc rationalisation to make the irrational less so.
gotta love medieval babies with sixpacks
Pickle Nick!
Those are some weird as fuck looking children.
They were brined.
They got better!
They weren’t children after all; they were adults and the pickling shrunk them
You would look weird too if you had been through what they had!
You see, infant mortality was very high, because instead of practicing good hygiene, people practiced pickling babies, and so only the most ripped and strong kids made it to 5.
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
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.
One of them has a fucking bald spot. :D
I’m chuckling about the pickled children
Lol that one has back abs too!
Bro’s roid-routine is all over the place.
That is what they looked like in the olden days.
“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.
Those babies are ripped AF
1 going on 30 with those bald spots.
Reason might be that it weren’t kids in the variant of the legend the painting is based on, but a kind of medieval travelling clerics on their way to Athens. Says so in the German Wikipedia.
Medieval paintings didn’t care for realistic size comparisons, so might well have been misinterpreted as kids in later times.Maybe St. Nick half-assed the sign of the cross. So when the traveling clerics were resurrected, they got resurrected in fun sized.
why is it called “fun” sized?
Because “lesser portion” doesn’t hit the same.
Renaissance Artist Draw An Actual Child Challenge: Impossible
Those children look like very wrong.
They remind me of Attack on Titan, but miniature.
Attack on a bunch of short dudes.
I hated them tiny ones.
Now I’m thinking of titans the size of these mabies, but with the strength of the titans.
The painter had never seen a child, so, I think he did a nice job.
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?
Santa also punched a dude at the Council of Nicea
Allegedly struck a guy over an argument about the hierarchy of the godhead. Although this is recognized as apocryphal, not showing up in accounts until hagiographies hundreds of years later.
I think the resurrection thing is probably true, though.
That was a pre-jolly Saint Nicholas.
Remember when Christians used to care for the hungry?
Wow…
The 6th of December could have a soooo much different character… 😆
I also just realized that I have only 2 days left to buy some sweets and stuff to put into my kid’s boots.
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.
Last one is just plot of Samurai Jack.
