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Location Refine by Top Sellers Price: The tradition of gift-giving is an old one, but it became associated with Christmas more recently.

It is a relic of a pagan custom, namely, the winter solstice which in Europe occurs in December. This was celebrated in ancient Rome with gift-giving during the Saturnalia holiday, which took place that month. Some early Christian rulers, however, interpreted this story as indications that it should be their subjects who should give gifts to their superiors, and insisted on tributes and tithes during that period. This changed around the turn of the millennium following the popularity of the Good King Wenceslas story based on the life of another historical person claimed to be a gift-giver, Saint Wenceslaus.

This also coincided with the desire of some elites to reduce the rowdiness of adult Christmas celebrations, which in some places were tied to begging, as "bands of young men, often rowdy, would "wassail" from home to home and demand handouts from the gentry".

Another related aspect was the growing desire by parents to keep children at home, away from the "corrupting" influence of the urban streets. Another relatively recent change concerned the time of Christmas gift-giving. The tradition was also embraced by retailers, for whom the weeks and, eventually, the entire month before Christmas became a very profitable period.

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