44th National Táncház Festival & Fair • 4–6 April 2025
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Starting page: 8
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Winter tales by Mikszáth Kálmán “…just between you and me, of course I agree that St. Nick is a saint, but I don’t think he is much of a gentleman. …no matter how we paint the picture, he’s nothing but a spy, a common spy. Before sending out the presents for Christmas, he sends Jesus down to earth to check which children are obeying their parents and which aren’t…Nicholas is cunning, he asks the servants, and even the beasts, the birds and the grasses and they all answer because, after all, he’s a saint…” From the 1880s, source: mek.oszk.hu