Sinterklaas Special 2013

Sinterklaas stories

Here's some background information:

Sinterklaas is a Dutch folkloristic feast to give childeren presents on Saint Nicholas' eve, 5 December. The name of Saint Nicholas is in this sphere usually simplified to 'Sinterklaas' (Father Christmas, also called 'Santaklaus', is based on this tradition). He is assisted by a dark person, Zwarte Piet (Black Pete). Some say he's a Moor. Some say the blackness is from the chimney he travels through delivering the presents. Traditionally Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet will leave well-behaved children presents, but they will punish those who have been very naughty. For example, they will take bad children and carry these children off in a burlap sack to their homeland of Spain, where, according to legend, Sinterklaas and his helper dwell out of season. (see further http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet) and more background info: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas)

The Story challenge was: what happened with those naughty children taken in the burlap sack to Spain...

The Stories

• Zwarte Piet and the Naughty Boy by StorySam (man-boy story)
  Bad little Joost meets Zwarte Piet for an attitude adjustment.
• Zwarte Piet goes America by Stroker (man-boy story)
  A beastly little boy, of unremembered Dutch heritage, behaves so badly that Zwarte Piet is forced to abduct the lad and teach him a valuable lesson: one must be good for goodness' sake.
• Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet Meet the Brewster Boys by J.O. Dickingson
  This is a story involving four brothers, two preteens and two recently turned fourteen-year-olds, helping out a recently immigrated young Dutch boy deal with an elementary school bully and celebrate his heritage. It is a heartwarming, tender, pecker-throbbing, loving story of devoted brothers punishing the wicked and rewarding the good.
• Sinterklaas (Santa Klaus), the Origin Story by Maikeli (eunuch & slave boy story)
  An account, based loosely on historical facts, of how the Santa/Black Pete myth came to be.