Why Stockings? (Christmas Countdown Day 9)

The stockings were hung but why? Have you ever heard how this began?

Legend has it that a poor widower and his three children left their washed stockings out one night on the fireplace for them to dry. Nicholas, a kind man with a big heart focused on giving to others, passed by the house after they had gone to bed, and threw sacks of gold down the chimney, landing them in the stockings.

Nicholas was later deemed a saint, and this tradition has continued through many centuries and across many co...