From St. Nick to Santa to Kris Kringle, why we have different names for the jolly bringer of Christmas gifts You may call him Santa Claus, but the bearded guy in the red suit is a man known by ...

As for his mutant powers, Marvel’s Santa is a teleporter with super-strength (but only on Christmas Eve), and he can, of course, levitate up chimneys and detect who has been naughty or nice.

Editor’s note: This is a reprint of a timeless column written years ago by the journalist Eric Newton. More than a hundred years ago, an 8-year-old girl wrote a letter to the editor of the New ...